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@@@@@ The big boy was chasing them iii I woke with most of my body on the floor but one leg - my left - still propped on the bed and fast asleepOutside, the wind and surf continued to 880 roarInside, my heart was pounding almost as hard as the waves breaking on the beachI could still see Tessie going down - drowning while those soft and implacable hands clasped her calvesIt was perfectly clear, a hellish painting inside my head But it wasn't the dream of the little girls fleeing the frog-thing that was making my heart pound, not the dream that caused me to wake up on the floor with my mouth tasting like copper and every nerve seeming to burnIt was, rather, the way you wake from a bad dream realizing that you forgot something important: to turn off the stove, for instance, and now the house is filled with the smell of gas I pulled my foot off the bed and it hit the floor in a burst of pins and needlesI rubbed it, grimacingAt first it was like rubbing a block of wood, but then that numb sensation started to leaveThe sensation that I'd forgotten something vital did not But what? I had some hopes that our expedition to the south end of the Key might put an end to the whole nasty, festering businessThe biggest hurdle, after all, was belief itself, and as long 881 as we didn't backslide in the bright Florida sunshine tomorrow, we were over that oneIt was possible we might see upside-down birds, or that a gigantic hop-frog monstrosity like the one in my dream might try to bar our way, but I had an idea those were essentially wraiths - excellent for dealing with six-year-old girls, not so good against grown men, especially when armed with silver-tipped harpoons And, of course, I would have my pad and pencils I thought Perse was now afraid of me and my newfound talentAlone, still not recovered from my near-death experience (still suicidal, in fact), I might have been an asset instead of a problem Because in spite of all his big talk, that Edgar Freemantle really hadn't had another life; that Edgar had just switched the backdrop of his invalid's existence from pines to palmsBut once I had friends againsaw what was all around me and reached out to it Then I'd become dangerousI don't know exactly what she had in mind - other than regaining her place in the world, that is - but she must have thought that when it came to mischief-making, the 882 potential for a talented one-armed artist was greatI could have sent poison paintings all over the globe, by God! But now I had turned in her hand, just as Libbit hadNow I was something first to be stopped, then discard