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He got up to get another cigar. Are you the personwho cries in the night? I asked. She was wondering if it would do any good if she went out to Great Neck and talked to Gertrude Moore-house. since melted), dressedonly in my bathing trunks and lost in the world I was making--the onewhere a private detec

I rewound it, hesitated with my finger over the PLAY button, toldmyself(in Jo's voice) not to be a fool, and pushed it. What if we had an early supper on the Castle Rock common? Same place asFriday? Say five-ish? I'd have to bring Ki-- Fine, I said. She sat thinking this over, watching as a fully loadedpulptruck snored past on the highway, its headlights glaring and itsload of logs swaying from side to side like the hips of an overweightwoman. I walked on.