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“I don’t know about this, Roland. ”Aunt Cord had stared, eyes wide, mouth open. “All right,” she said. No, she’ll not tax me.

But if we can start one or two of the clustered tankers burning, we think there’ll be an explosion—mayhap a fearful one. He doesn’t like what he thinks of as our “city ways. “Count before we all lose our nerve. He’d been hungry for the last hour or so, but now the pangs were gone.