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@@@@@ My guess is that the Realtor who handles things for her programmed the rental properties into the phonesOr maybe Miss Eastlake's business manager He pops down from StPetersburg every six weeks or so to make sure she's not dead and I'm not stealing the SpodeI'll ask him the next time he shows up "So she can call any house on the north end of the Key at the touch of a buttonI mean, they are all hers"But you know what, muchacho? I 250 think your button is going to have a little nervous breakdown this evening "No," I said, not even thinking about it "Ah," Wireman said, exactly as if he understood And who knows, maybe he did"Anyway, that explains your mystery caller - although I have to tell you, explanations have a way of thinning out on Duma KeyAs your story demonstrates "What do you mean? Have you hadexperiences?" He looked at me squarely, his large tanned face inscrutableThe chilly late January wind gusted, blowing sand around our anklesIt also lifted his hair, once again revealing the coin-shaped scar above his right templeI wondered if someone had poked him with the neck of a bottle, maybe in a bar fight, and tried to imagine someone getting mad at this manexperiences," he said, and hooked the first two fingers of each hand into little quotation marks"It's what makes children intoAlso what gives English teachers something to bullshit about in first year Each time with the air-quotes 251 Okay, he didn't want to talk about it, at least not thenSo I asked him how much of my story he believed He rolled his eyes and sat back in his chai