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"Be careful" I said as he started "Don't scratch yourself or step on anything sharp"

He didn't have a shirt on or any shoes or socks

"Okay, okay," he said, anxious, and worked hi onto the other side

He was so quiet for a while I became very nervous "Harley?"

"It's all right," he said "This is very strange I'ht, but it looks like I' Wait"

There was a flicker and then soht

"Electricity works," he cried

I poked azed around It did look like an old living roo settee across from it with a table in between Beside the sofa was a pole laht of the settee was the small lamp Harley had lit

"It sroom,' Harley called back from behind another wall, "There's a kitchenette back here and a bathroom, too

"The water runs!" he cried"Ill let it run a while and we can drink this without worrying"

I decided to slip through the opening, too, and did so I tried to keep off my bad ankle as I hopped to the sofa It was very dusty Our movement stirred up the layers of dust on the concrete floor,the air even more murk,, There was a very musty odor Water had seeped in around the foundation fro the walls and the floor

Someone had once tried to turn this into soht There were soh there were no s, a curtain had been hung to make it seem as if there was aHalf of the curtain drooped It was once white and blue, but now looked gray and very dirty Here and there were framed prints of rustic scenes: fared in as a hand-carved Swiss house with figures of milkmaids and farmers on a small platform in front The little door looked like it opened on the hour I touched the chi steadily back and forth, the clock beginning to tick as if it had never stopped

On the table next to the sofa were the remnants of someone's efforts to knit what looked like a dark blue sweater There was a bag of wool,beside it On the wall behind the settee I saw a table upon which was an old phonograph and a pile of what looked like antiques to e 33 rpm records I had seen in our house, records once collected by randparents

Harley had crossed the room and turned on another lamp It was beside a convertible bed pulled from another sofa There was still a blanket, pillows and a sheet on the bed At the foot of it was a trunk He lifted the lid and peered down