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"I did that on the way here "

"In the state you were in?"

"Well, I certainly snapped out of it long enough to go into the hotel and make certain she'd left I had to do that much A li She reached New Orleans this afternoon As for the convent, I have no idea how to reach her there I don't even know if she has the wiring in it for a phone For now, she's as safe as she ever hile Roger was living "

"Agreed Let's go uptown "

SOMETIMES fear is a warning It's like so Go No Farther

As we entered the flat, I felt that for a couple of seconds Panic

Go No Farther

But I was too proud to show it and David too curious, proceeding before , no doubt, as I did, that the place ithout life The recent death? He could smell it as well as I could I wondered if it was less noxious to him since it had not been his kill

Roger! The fusion of the er the Ghost in memory was suddenly like a sharp kick in the chest

David went all the way to the living rooel with its shell of holy water and thinking how like the granite statue it was Blake Williaotten their proportions right Roger and I could have talked about Blake

But that was over I was here, in the hallway

The thought that I had to walk forward, put one foo

t before the other, reach the living rooranite statue wassuddenly a little more than I could accept

"It's not here," David said He hadn't readin the living roo just a little of their dedicated light on hiranite statue in this room "

I gave a sigh "I' to hell," I whispered