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@@@@@In the end, I decided not to I didn't know if it was the right decision or the wrong one, but I did know he might have a long night with Elizabeth Eastlake ahead of himAlso, that headache was still sitting in the back of my skullI settled for asking him again if he wouldn't consider letting me turn my promised doctor's appointment into a double date 329 "I will consider it," he said"And I'll let you know "Well don't wait too long, because-" He raised a hand, stilling me, and for once his face was unsmilingEnough for one night, okay?" "Okay," I saidI watched him go in, then went back to the van Jack had the volume up He went to turn it down and I said, "No, that's okay "Really?" He turned around and headed back up the roadYou ever heard em before?" "Jack," I said, "that's StyxDennis DeYoung? Tommy Shaw? Where have you been all your life? In a cave?" Jack smiled guiltily"I'm into country and even more into old standards," he said"To tell you the truth, I'm a Rat Pack kind of guy The idea of Jack Cantori hanging with Dino and Frank made me wonder - and not for the first time that day - if any of this was really happeningI also wondered how I could remember that Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw had been in Styx - that 330 Shaw had in fact written the song currently blasting out of the van's speakers - and sometimes not be able to remember my own ex-wife's name xi Both lights on the answering machine next to the living room phone were blinking: the one indicating that I had messages and the one indicating that the tape for recording messages was fullBut the number in the MESSAGES WAITING window was only 1I considered this with foreboding while the weight with my headache inside it slid a little closer to the front of my skullThe only two people I could think of who might call and leave a message so long it would use up the whole tape were Pam and Ilse, and in neither case would hitting PLAY MESSAGES be apt to bring me good newsIt doesn't take five minutes of recording-time to say Everything's fine, call when you get a chance Leave it until tomorrow, I thought, and a craven voice I hadn't even known was in my mental repertoire (maybe it was new) was willing to go 331 furtherIt suggested I simply delete the message without listening to it at a