![]() ![]() The good stuff was expensive, but there was plenty of furnace-oil too, and it might hang you over but it didn't kill you, and if you did go blind, it didn't last. The downtown hooch came over the border from Canada in pulp trucks, and most of them bottles had what the labels said. Some served hard stuff as well as beer, and by all accounts I ever heard, the stuff you could get in town was ten times as good as the rotgut whiskey and bathtub gin you could get at the white boys' NCO on Friday and Saturday nights. I suppose palms got greased, but maybe not as many or with so much as you might think in Derry people have a way of looking the odier way. The Sheriff knew and the cops knew, but those places roared all night long, same as they'd done since the logging days in the 1890s. They was what folks called "blind pigs," and that was about right, because most of the customers acted like pigs when they were in there and they was about blind when they turned em out. Wasn't anybody in em spoke very easy, anyhow. They wasn't speakeasies that was too grand a name for em. In those days Derry was still something of a logging town and there were eight or ten bars, most of em down in a part of town they called Hell's Half-Acre. So we went on the town if we had a pass in the evening. 'Us Company E boys weren't allowed any place near it, of course. Is that why you broke and ran? You care about the strangest things, Brett. ![]() He opened fire as he ran, letting the stream of shells sweep across the Marauder's plastron like the rush of water from a hose. Then he was up and moving again as cannon shells stitched across the ferrocrete where he had been. Sometimes a sharp, almost musical tone reached shore. An explosive, Dwer supposed, for about twenty duras after each canister struck the water, the sea abruptly frothed white. At intervals, something small and shiny would fall from the slender spacecraft. He spied it far away, a silvery bead, cruising back and forth above the deep blue waters of the Rift. Another mystery to add to all the others. But he wasn't dumb at all-which meant he could be involved. If his head was just bone and muscle, as he made it appear, then he was not involved in complicated and surely technological crime. The computer had uncovered the fact that he had been present whenever the bank robberies had occurred. Our moronic slab of muscle could talk like a professor when he had to. It was her life, her only precious life, that was inexorably dwindling away, that would soon end with the cold embrace of death itself.Ī new mystery had now presented itself. Kahlan took another drink and then handed him the waterskin.Īt the same time, when, for only an instant here or a moment there, she actually comprehended the staggering reality that she was about to die, her mind blanked out with overwhelming terror. I've been thinking about what you're doing, and it's very courageous. She faced him now, her eyes softer than before, her mouth less rigid. Pammi giggled and held out her grubby right hand. She said,What do you mean, if we go through with this? We made a deal. Now that you mention it, Al, aren't you slightly out of your jurisdiction? I believe this is Broward County. When we get up there, Gunderson said,let's not shoot each other down.īaby, you're a fool to count on yours truly, I realized that for the first time since I'd ever set eyes on him, he was passionate and angry, though the anger was not purely for me. I motioned for Mojo to follow, and off we crept past the ruins of the little house, still burning merrily, and over a low garden wall and through an overgrown alley and away. What creature would want to reveal such a scheme to a lover? And because I couldn't tell her that my love for Pandora lay at the very heart of what I did. ![]()
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