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"Pitt?"

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The selfassurance was gone and Collins sounded strangely subdued "I think I'e around rowth-" He broke off, without co the description After a silence, he came back; his voice had a chill in it

"There are bones I count two, no three skeletons They're e in a catacomb"

Pitt tried to visualize what Collins was seeing, hoould have felt if they could exchange places "Go on What else is there?"

"The remains of the poor devils, whoever they were, are above me I can almost reach out and pat their heads"

"You mean skulls"

"Yeah One is smaller, maybe a child The others appear to be adults I may want to take one home with me"

Fro, Pitt could not help wondering if Collins was losing his grip on reality "What for? So you can play Hamlet?"

"Hell, no," Collins replied indignantly "The jaws old in the teeth"

A bell rang in the back of Pitt's raph "Collins, listen to e rabbit teeth in the upper center surrounded by gold caps?"

Collins did not answer i to Pitt He could not know that Collins was too stunned to reply

"Uncannypositively uncanny," Collins murmured over the phone link in total baffleuy's bicuspids perfectly"

The manifestation struck with such abruptness, such incredibility, that Pitt was for therealization that they had at last discovered the burial vault of Harvey Shields

Sarveux waited until the door had closed behind his secretary before he spoke "I have read your report, and I find it deeply disturbing"