Show J 1 Telegram M Mystery Serial Sera j. j Cocaine j Bv Y Cornell w CHAPTER ONE ft KNEW EW what it was like to wake up after being drunk the night before This This' had all alli ll i same MIne symptoms and then some Bome ones of its own Worse than else was the mental it had left behind it Was ass afraid as a year seven-year-old in an an anold old dark house And Anden en youre you're afraid at one o'clock a blazing bright afternoon ster youre you're afraid I grabbed my eyes tight to shut shutt t t the recollection and if it Id I'd had extra pair of hands Id I'd have lopped up my ears with them ate at ate ate e e same time ime But the images ere re inside in my memory where couldn't get at them Blurred it t there I I He was a fellow Id I'd known so so slightly that I didn't fen en know his last name Just Joe said aw you need cheering Come on with me And then bably an hour later the parting id d on my iny shoulder houlder Take Ity Ity it sy y be seeing you around Im I'm Iming awing ing g now II I remembered saying Well it t a see Ill I'll go with you I Ie Ie ie e here with you after all remember the knowing wink Id I'd d given me Naw you better ig g around awhile Im I'm Im I'm taking it t girl in green home You it is twos two's company company- dt It t Joe whoever he was So a I stayed on there like a fool lastrange strange a-strange place with strangers f HE rest of it came crowding ck k on me all mixed up The with the white scar on his for w. w. w I kept seeing that white jar hearing disconnected things d said Just enough to cover ur ir r thumbnail Always 1 that Just enough to cover your jour Then you bring it up iong long ong way like you were going wipe your nose Nice king place isn't it You want you can have it Listen Id I'd Ide Ide I I ire e e away anything tonight Make at home Ill I'll be right I cle you jou do have havee ie e e. trouble in here while I was wase wasie ie e Look at that look at the theall theall theall all over your shirt o 0 3 you cant can't get out that way its it's a dead window you fool It t you see by looking at it I nailed-down nailed fast its it's painted er r. r They built a house right up ct t to this and the brick work worked worked ed led it up Aw that's ling ing you want that to go goy goy iy y you how to make maket it t go away Now hold steady st t enough to cover your thumb thumb- I id d got worse At the it was almost a frenzy a Of fear and flight and suit uil The very Iw Walls had med to whisper Look at n sitting there waiting They'll t him they'll get him They med to sing too Music kept Ing g out of them Ghost music uld hear it so plain I could Ji recognize some of the tunes Ice ce cc Blue Gown Out on a Limb Johnny Woodpecker Song id d then the climactic madness fc straining tugging trip to theet theet the et along the floor the frantic Ing of the door the locking of on on what it held the secreting Ithe e key in m my pocket the piling- piling Land and and barricading of it with a aIe ale apie pie le Ie a chair anything I could my hands handa on Then flight ag g in doorways sidling around tiers ers ers hugging the shadows vion Livion at last J DRED knocked on the door d d heard me moving around I She looked in and said ilo Tommy I guess you had rink ink or two too many last t. t thought I only wish it was wasU wasU U Uh Uhe h lie he rested a hand on my arm J a. a minute to show she didn't 51 it t for criticism But dont don't too much uch of it Tommy It Itt isn't t make it any easier to get ob b. b Ill I'll fix you some coffee he e was my older sister I was I living with her but shed she'd even keeping me in pocket money i Id I'd been out of a Job She Shet t out again and I went ahead my dressing st I was going to put on a shirt shirl but I decided Id I'd stick he e old one a day more The it was folded or rumpled rumple have hidden the stain I saw I was buttoning it in front fronte e glass glaSo at it in a sort of para para- a horror Finally I touched it il IT t where it was brown it was Good and sUf stiff e io do o have some trouble in here at the blood all over your d U g It rang in my ears again pulled it up out of my belt hoisted my undershirt am and andred red ned ed my y body There wasn't a anywhere on my skin And Andi i ever vcr had bled that much mus must been a pretty sized good it h had d come from someone i M SHED up my dressing i my coat and turned to put ange an ge matches keys what- what r f loose accessories there were lt into nto into my pockets where they ged aged The stuff was dumped n top of the bureau the way n. n Pays ays ys found it every morning ted td ed collecting it item by item i nickels and a dime Id I'd Idi i ed d out with thirty five cents light I distinctly remembered I iii BOr Q f. f must have spent a dime i ime me during the course of the I 1 couldn't remember doing A withered package with one Y Cigarette And last of all aU my 3 1 ii Is time I 1 didn't stand staring 1 ozen horror I 1 I lurched for- for steadied m myself self by gripping a i ti t the he bureau There was one key too many there a strange key up mixed with my own two now how a key Id I'd never seen before belore Or at le least t only in a snow a It was an old-fashioned old iron thing dun colored with an elongated elongated elongated elon elon- gated stem and two teeth at the end end- You could see it was meant for an old-fashioned old door on th the inside of a house house house-a a door room or ora ora a R. closet Then the panic came on again from last night only it was worse because this was broad daylight and now I 1 was in my right senses sense I did things fast i swung out my Valise aUse and kicked the lid lap jup I didn't have much to pack so it didn't take long lone ID I'D D GOTTEN halfway down the short little hall when Mildred looked out at the back and saw me She ran after me No uNo Tommy Tommy what're what're you doing Ive got to go Dont Don't stop me Ive I've got to get out of here But why Where You have no money She took me by the arm and coaxed me into the kitchen At At least dr drink a cup of coffee before you go It was Just a stall she only wanted to gain time I 1 knew that but I slumped into a ch chair ir an anyway ay I heard her slip out to the phone and heard her say in a guarded voice Denny will you come home right away Its It's very eryl important I He was a detective In one I Iway way I wanted to talk to him very much In another way I I guess I must have wanted to more than I didn't want to because because because be be- cause I was still sitting there when he showed up H HE E CAME striding in looking worried and shied his hat offside at the scat seat of the chair He addressed addressed addressed ad ad- dressed Mildred first the matter Its Tommy she said He packed his things and wants to leave Come on well we'll go in your room Tom He brought the bag and closed the door door after after the two of us I gave it to him right away What was WM the good of paying it out slow I said Last night I think I killed a man He churned that around in his mind for a minute without taking his eyes off me Then he said You think Listen that's a athing athing athing thing you usually can be pretty certain of You either did or Now which is it I I better start from the first and try to tell you as much as I Ican Ican Ican can I said bitterly You better he agreed There wont won't be very much At 1130 last night I was standing on ona ona ona a corner waiting to cross with the light when a guy I knew by sight happened along I dont don't know who he is or where I knew him from Just that Id I'd seen his face someplace someplace someplace some some- place before fellow named Joe I told him I was down in the dumps and he said cheering cheer cheer- che cheering rIng r- r ing up He asked me to come com with him and like a sap I went H HE E TOOK me to some apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment where there was a big party going on I dont don't know just where that was was down down off oft Kent blvd somewhere I didn't know anyone there They seemed a sort of free easy bunch no questions asked He left and when I tried to go with him he gave me some excuse and shoved off alone leavIng leaving leaving leav leav- ing me there From then on it gets all woozy The lights got dimmer and the place got quieter There was some guy with a white te scar along his jaw I remember he seemed to be watching me for a long while Finally he came over and offered me ne something something- This was the part that was hardest to tell Offered you what he said sald when I stopped I I though it was a headache powder first He told me to stick my thumb out and he sifted it onto the nail from a little paper He just asked the question with his eyes this time I looked down at the floor Coke I murmured half It came easier once Id I'd gotten past that point I finished up the rest of it and and I piled d stuff up in front of it and I beat it out of there and I dont don't remember getting home UlD W Ul WD D I ENNY hinged his palm up and down on his knee once or twice before he said anything Well expect if you ou go monkey monkey- ing around like that he growled finally filially its It a wonder you didn't imagine you stuffed six dead guys into a closet instead of just one I held my head tight between both hands I found this key on the bureau when I got dressed a 8 little while ago And this blood on my shirt I hauled it out and waved it at him His face showed Id I'd made my I point He traced fingernail a a back I and forth forth across the stain once or twice A A knife he murmured A bullet wound wouldn't have bled that much not much not on you youCan Can you remember a knife knite 1 Have you looked around around here I shuddered Dont tell me I I brought that back here with me too tool He got up from the bed I suppose suppose suppose sup sup- pose to look for it around the room And then he didn't have to it was there His getting up unearthed unearthed unearthed un un- un- un it Something fell teU through to the 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