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Draft.

KF-N-6501

19301114 18:06:37

The Elsey Grammar School gymnasium is a drab but roomy brick box, lined with a parquet wooden floor and visibly supported by trussed steal beams across the ceiling. Sound carried in it rather well, and Mrs. Olten's piano arpeggio cues carried a greater pronounced resonance with each repetition. The children on stage, who had spent several weeks in preparation for this event and had never been part of any sort of theatrics, ...

Draft.

XL-N-2400 Room 308

19430705 07:01:16

Throop heard the snoring from the other side of the door as he turned the key in the handle to open it. That's another ten minutes wasted just for him to get himself awake and functional. It was bad enough to have to drive all the way out here and have no other business in the vicinity. The bed in the room was still made and empty, and Halsted slept in the couch nearby, with his legs dangling over one of the ...