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Sabina drew a breath, let it out slowly.She should be the one to tell you. Ring for her, Amity. Kremlin It was an odd hour; Sigurd Muller and Loren Estanzio were alone in the commissary. Muller sipped from his cup—it was too hot yet. He set it down. A lie? Uh— She paused. Do not forget their Eleven Forms of Politeness and Degree. The shed was astonishingly neat. The boy had rigged up droplights. There was a pale blue pegboard wall hung with shining tools. On closer inspection I could see that rust was beginning to fleck the tools. On the workbench were technical journals and hot-rodder magazines. I looked at the improvised engine hoist, at the neat shelves of paint and lubricant. This was what was happening ... J. G. said it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen and that it fit him fine. He even managed to get one button buttoned. She wondered if they wouldall obey her and found, within the next few days, that they all would. They would do anything she told them to. They would eat poison out of her hand. Well, not exactly out of her hand, but it amounted to the same thing. They were devoted to her. Slavishly. Dazedly and as though to deny the reality of this seemingly interminable stairwell, he continued his descent. When he stopped again at the forty-fifth landing, he was trembling. He was afraid. And then, when she came back another time to see if all the things were still there, undisturbed, she saw a tall, two-headed seeming monster walking briskly down the beach, and one head, bouncing directly over the other one, had hair and was Littleboys. Wrixton half-turned, drawing his arm back as if he intended to take a swing at Quincannon— a serious error in judgment had he gone through with it. But he didnt. His anger faded as quickly as it had appeared; his shoulders drooping again, he leaned heavily against the beveled edge of the bar. Above them in the hallway a door slammed, someone stormed through into the apartment in a tempest, kicking a chair against a wall. It was Alto. He raced down the staircase into the lounge, jaw tense, fingers flexing angrily. As I got right up against the wall, I noticed the little white square sign. It said, Tom was sitting on the old front porch, drinking Scotch. We are both thirty-eight now, but he looks younger than that, and younger than I. A rancher looks competent and calm, even in a bad year; being boss gives him that. But Tom had added to his calm the arrogance, the elegance, all the last refinements that money can confer, and had ended up in indifference and boredom. Still he was an impressive sight in his ranchers clothes and boots and British grooming. His eyes looked tired. July 22—Mrs Flynn called a strange doctor to see me. She was afraid I was going to die. I told the doctor I wasnt too sick and that I only forget sometimes. He asked me did I have any friends or relatives and I said no I dont have any. I told him I had a friend called Algernon once but he was a mouse and we used to run races together. He looked at me kind of funny like he thought I was crazy. How I lived to tell this tale must after all be some sort of durility test— I must have ricocheted from surface to surface, up, down and sideways, fully thirteen times, being saved only by the dimensions of the room, just big enough to permit me the barest air-interval of relief, between making connections. During which, as with your drowners here, much passed before me. I comprehended how thoroughly I had gone against everything my mentors had been at such pains to teach me — against all the friction, weightfulness and lethargy it had taken me months to acquire. Above all — and as if I had never heard of catechisms — I had totally forgotten how much more Here I now was than There. Only let me get through this, I prayed, I promised, and Ill never again forget the distance between a floor and a ceiling. And its true. I've never had to stop to puzzle over that later; there's something to be said for the school of hard knocks. Then at last, I once again lay prone..
