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Vincente reached down and began to pick one up for a closer look His heart skipped the next three beats and he felt an icy shroud fall over hiers of his hand did not feel as if they ca-dead cottonwood tree The idol felt more like the soft flesh of a woman's arm Vincente could have sworn he heard it utter an audible moan

"Did you hear that?" he asked, thrusting the idol back in the case as if it had burned his hand

Zolar peered at hi"

Vincente looked like a htmare "Please, my friend, let us finish our business, and then you must leave I do not want these idols on my property"

"Does that mean you don't wish to buy them?" Zolar asked, surprised

No, no Spirits are alive in those idols I can feel their presence"

"Superstitious nonsense"

Vincente grasped Zolar by the shoulders, his eyes pleading "Destroy theed "Destroy them or they will surely destroy you"

Under an Indian summer sun, two hundred prirass of East Potoles under a theatrical spotlight

Staged for people who appreciated the ti craftsmanship of coach-built automobiles, and those who simply had a love affair with old cars, the annual Capital Concours de Beaux Moteurcar was primarily a benefit to raise money for child abuse treat the weekend the event was held, fifty thousand enthusiastic old-car buffs swars, Auburns, Cords, Bugattis, and Packards, products of autoone

The atia The crowds that strolled the exhibit area and ad could but wonder about an era and lifestyle when the well-to-do ordered a chassis and engine from a factory and then had the body custoer onlookers dreae of sixty-five fondly recalled seeing theh the towns and cities of their youth

The cars were classified by year, body style, and country of origin Trophies were awarded to the best of their class and plaques to the runners-up "Best of shoas the most coveted award A few of the wealthier owners spent hundreds of thousands of dollars restoring their pride and joy to a level of perfection far beyond the car's original condition on the day it rolled out of the factory

Unlike the more conservatively dressed owners of other cars, Pitt sat in an old-fashioned canvas lawn chair wearing a flowered Hawaiian aloha shirt, white shorts, and sandals Behind hi, dark blue 1936 Pierce Arrow berline (sedan body with a divider ) that was hitched to a 1936

Pierce Arrow Travelodge house trailer painted acolor

In between answering questions from passersby about the car and trailer, he had his nose buried in a thick boater's guide to the Sea of Cortez Occasionally he jotted notes on a long pad of legal notepaper, yelloith blue-ruled lines None of the islands list