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-348-THE CAMERA EYE (26)the garden was crowded and outside Madison Squarewas ful of cops that made everybody move That thought called up another. Winters the kitchen was absolutely quiet except for the faint roaring of the stove or Lizzie's heavy step or puffing breath as she stacked the dinner-dishes she'd just washed back in the cupboard. But even while shewas laughing, Mattie looked tense and unhappy.

e I'd absorbed a fair amount ofthat sophomore-jinx stuff; the idea that one hit might only be a fluke. that's a man who can be dangerous. Fuck me til I cry. The sound of it partingcompany from his face would be like the crack of a dead branch brokenover a bent knee.