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out chinks and slopes and spicks and micks; thinking about what Elaine Connelly had said。 He thinks you've got a secret。 So do I。
And maybe I do。 Yes; maybe I do。 And of course Brad Dolan wants it。 Not because he thinks it's important (and it's not; I guess; except to me); but because he doesn't think very old men like myself should have secrets。 No taking the ponchos off the hook outside the kitchen; no secrets; either。 No getting the idea that the likes of us are still human。 And why shouldn't we be allowed such an idea? He doesn't know。 And in that; too; he is like Percy。
So my thoughts; like a river that takes an oxbow turn; finally led back to where they had been when Brad Dolan reached out from beneath the kitchen eave and grabbed my wrist: to Percy; mean…spirited Percy Wetmore; and how he had taken his revenge on the man who had laughed at him。 Delacroix had been throwing the colored spool he had … the one Mr。 Jingles would fetch … and it bounced out of the cell and into the corridor。 That was all it took; Percy saw his chance。
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〃No you fool!〃 Brutal yelled; but Percy paid no attention。 Just as Mr。 Jingles reached the spool … too intent on it to realize his old enemy was at hand … Percy brought the sole of one hard black workshoe down on him。 There was an audible snap as Mr。 Jingles's back broke; and blood gushed from his mouth。 His tiny black eyes bulged in their sockets; and in them I read an expression of surprised agony that was al