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‘Quartermain? My God, it’s late!’

‘Shut up! Did you hear about Braling?’

‘I knew one day he’d get caught without his hourglass’

‘This is no time for levity!’

‘Oh, hi across town When you hold that tight to the edge of the grave, you should just ju What can you do? Ban cap–pistols?’

‘Bleak, I need you!’

‘We all need each other’

‘Braling was school board secretary I’ with killers in embryo’

‘My dear Quartermain,’ said Bleak dryly, ‘you remind me of the perceptive asylum keeper who claimed that his inmates were mad You’ve only just discovered that boys are animals?’

‘So must be done!’

‘Life will do it’

‘The dae!’

‘“The Worms Crawl In”? My favorite tune when I was a boy Don’t you re ten? Call their folks’

‘Those fools? They’d just say, “Leave the nasty old man alone”’

‘Why not pass a law tothe telephone wires ‘I’ve two dozen nepheeat icicles when I threaten to live forever Wake up, Cal We are a minority, like the dark African and the lost Hittite We live in a country of the young All we can do is wait until some of these sadists hit nineteen, then truck thee juice and spring rain Patience Someday soon you’ll see thee quietly’