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@@@@@"My eyes are watering and my ears are ringing like a motherfuckerCan you hear me, Edgar?" "Yes," I said"Are you all right?" "Other than thinking I just saw a dead guy disappear in fucking front of me? I guess so He bent down, picked the blunt cylinder off the floor, and kissed it"Glory be to God for dappled things," he said, then barked laughter"Even when they're not dappled It was a candlestickThe tip, where you were supposed to stick your candle, looked dark, as if it had touched something very hot instead of something cold and wet "There are candles in all Miss Eastlake's rentals, because we lose the power out here all the time," Wireman said"We have a gennie at the big house, but the other places don't, not even this oneBut unlike the smaller houses, this one does have candlesticks from the big house, and they just happen to be silver "And you remembered that," I said 839 He shrugged, then looked at the Gulf There was nothing there but moonlight and starlight on the water Wireman gripped my wristHis fingers closed over it where the manacle had been, and my heart jumped "What?" I said, not liking the new fear I saw in his face"Jack's alone at El Palacio We took Wireman's carIn my terror, I'd never noticed the headlights or heard it pull in beside my ownThere had been a few calls from old friends of Elizabeth's, but the last one had come at quarter of nine, an hour and a half before we came bursting in, bloody and wide-eyed, Wireman still waving the candlestickThere had been no intruders at El Palacio, and Jack hadn't seen the ship that had been anchored for awhile in the Gulf off Big PinkJack had been eating microwave popcorn and watching Beverly Hills Cop on an old videotape 840 He listened to our story with mounting amazement, but no real disbelief; this was a young man, I had to remind myself, that had been raised on shows like The X-Files and LostBesides, it fit with what he'd been told earlier