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erwood as she had ever since the last ice age had ended; it seemed。 I was happy to go。 All in all; I felt as if I'd gotten off easy。 And it was nice to know there was a chance of surviving Percy; after all。
〃You send Melinda a whole basket of my love;〃 I said。 〃And don't go buying you an extra crate of trouble; either。 It'll probably turn out to be nothing but migraine; after all。〃
〃You bet;〃 he said; and below his sick eyes; his lips smiled。 The bination was damned near ghoulish。
As for me; I went back to E Block to start another day。 There was paperwork to be read and written; there were floors to be mopped; there were meals to be served; a duty roster to be made out for the following week; there were a hundred details to be seen to。 But mostly there was waiting … in prison there's always plenty of that; so much it never gets done。 Waiting for Eduard Delacroix to walk the Green Mile; waiting for William Wharton to arrive with his curled lip and Billy the Kid tattoo; and; most of all; waiting for Percy Wetmore to be gone out of my life。
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Delacroix's mouse was one of God's mysteries。 I never saw one in E Block before that summer; and never saw one after that fall; when Delacroix passed from our pany on a hot and thundery night in October … passed from it in a manner so unspeakable I can barely bring myself to recall it。 Delacroix claimed that he trained that mouse; which started its life among us as Steamboat Willy; but I really think it w