His voice was flat in my clean, well-lighted...
His
voice was flat in my clean, well-lighted studio
He put his hands to his head and raked his fingers
slowly through his hair, making it wilder than
ever"But I'll tell you something, you guys: - if
that's what's coming for me in the end, I sort of
wish I'd never been born in the first place
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I set the thick stack of drawings and watercolors
aside on the carpet, delighted to get the last two
out of my sightThen I looked at what had been
under her pictures, weighing the picnic basket
down
It was ammo for the spear-pistolI lifted one of
the stubby harpoons outIt was about fifteen
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inches long, and quite heavyThe shaft was steel,
not aluminum - I ladies rolex for sale wasn't sure aluminum had even
been used in the nineteen-twentiesThe businessend
was triple-bladed, and although the blades
were tarnished, they looked sharpI touched the
ball of my finger to one, and a tiny bead of blood
appeared on the skin instantly
"You ought to disinfect that," Jack said
"Yes indeed," I saidI turned the thing over in
the afternoon sun, sending reflections bounding
around the wallsThe short harpoon had its own
ugly beauty, a paradox perhaps reserved
exclusively for certain weapons of efficiency
"This wouldn't go very far in water," I said"Not
as heavy as it is
"You'd be surprised," Wireman said"The gun fires
off a spring and a CO2 tiffany jewelry us cartridgeShe bangs pretty
goodAnd back in those days, short range was
enoughThe Gulf teemed with fish, even close in
If Eastlake wanted to shoot something, he could
usually do it at point blank range
"I don't understand these tips," I said
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Wireman said, "Nor do IShe had at least a dozen
harpoons, including four mounted on the wall in
the library, and none of them are like these
Jack had gone into the bathroom and come back with
a bottle of hydrogen peroxideNow he took the
harpoon I was holding and examined the triplebladed
tip"What is it? Silver?"
Wireman made his thumb and forefinger into a gun
and pointed it at him"Hold your cards, but
Wireman gucci tote thinks you have scored a Bingo
"And you don't get that?" Jack asked
Wireman and I looked at each other, then at Jack
again
"You haven't been watching the right movies," he
said"Silver bullets are what you use to kill
werewolvesI don't know if silver works on
vampires or not, but obviously somebody thought it
did
"If you're suggesting Tessie and Laura Eastlake
are vampires," Wireman said, "they must have built
up a hell of a thirst since 1927 He looked at me,
expecting corroboration
"I think Jack's onto something," I saidI took
the bottle of peroxide, dipped the finger I'd
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pricked into it, and splashed the bottle up and
down a couple of mulberry bags times
"Man-law," Jack said, grimacing
"Not unless you were planning to drink it," I said,
and after a moment's consideration Jack and I both
burst out laughing
"Huh?" Wireman asked
"Never mind," Jack said, still grinningThen he
grew serious again"But there are no such things
as vampires, EdgarThere could be ghosts, I'll
give you that much - I think almost everyone
believes there could be ghosts - but there's no
such thing as vampires He brightened as an idea
struck him"Besides, it takes a vampire to make a
vampireThe Eastlake twins drowned
I picked up the short harpoon again, turning it
from side to side, making the reflection from the
tarnished tip tumble along the gucci bag black w