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I put Algernons body in a cheese box and buried him in the back yard. I cried. Reese pretended to be busy with his papers. It was all the excuse he could think of not to talk to Hitchcock while they waited. But he couldnt work. There was a lot that still had to be gone over before theWayfarer went back to Lambda Serpentis, but until Muller came and the matter was settled, he could not put his mind to it. Well swear by Robadur, Cordice pleaded. Im sorry, Mose,’ he said at last. ‘I don’t believe I can. I am not sure at all the church would approve of it.’ He had thought himself worried before; now he worried. She was cool and calm and resolutely considerate always; he had taken her to his bosom perhaps in some measure because, when he trumpeted at the world hisIve got problems of my own, her unverbalized answer had been,Enough for both of us? In a world where everybody depicted love in comic-strip colors, they found richer expression in halftones; they did not make scenes. Gone back over, the conversation was the closest she could ever come to telling him she was deeply troubled. There was a shout from one of the cars. Nolan turned from the cloud, his wings slipping as if unveiling his handiwork. Illuminated by the afternoon sun was the serene face of a three-year old child. Its wide cheeks framed a placid mouth and plump chin. As one or two people clapped, Nolan sailed over the cloud and rippled the roof into ribbons and curls. Later some men in white coats took me to a difernt part of the hospitil and gave me a game to play. It was like a race with a white mouse. They called the mouse Algemon. Algernon was in a box with a lot of twists and turns like all kinds of walls and they gave me a pencil and a paper with lines and lots of boxes. On one side it said START and on the other end it said FINISH. They said it wasamazedand that Algernon and me had the sameamazedto do. I dint see how we could have the sameamazedif Algemon had a box and I had a paper but I dint say nothing. Anyway there wasnt time because the race started. Then the doctor asked Mose straight out how he came to find it and Mose told him exactly how it happened. But he didnt tell him anything about the birdcage, for when he thought about it, it sounded so fantastic that he couldn’t bring himself to tell it. Just finding the critter and having it here was bad enough, without throwing in the birdcage. Why not?* * * * Sabina and I want to talk to you. Sit down. Freida signed and took the money. She got up to go, tremendously relieved. This was wonderful. Now she could pay the electric-light bill before next payday, by which time they would have shut off the electricity. He devised a way to open the tuna fish cans. He would slip the can sideways beneath the projecting treads of the escalator, just at the point where the steps were sinking flush to the floor. Either the escalator would split the can open or the can would jam the escalator. Perhaps if one escalator were jammed the whole chain of them would stop. He should have thought of that before, but he was, nevertheless, quite pleased to have thought of it at all.—I might have escaped. We went silently to bed after she had limped around and checked the house, even under the bed again. I heard that odd breathy whisper of a prayer and lay awake, trying to add up something shiny and the odd eyes and the whispering sob. Finally I shrugged in the dark and wondered what Id pick for funny when I grew up. All grownups had some kind of funny. Get used to it, he said. Its only ordinary flesh. It has a tiny pulse with a primitive sort of heart, and blood and muscle. And fat. It’s just flesh. Alive, of course, but perfectly harmless.” The devil withdrew his spear and laughed.Swear on what, Cordice? Your honor? Your soul? He spat. “What man has done, man can undo. Youre the living proof!”.
