He had been putting it off; hoping that something would happen to help him
avoid trying to call Tony again; that a ranger would e; or a helicopter; or
the rescue team; they always came in time on his TV programs; the people were
saved。 On TV the rangers and the SWAT squad and the paramedics were a friendly
white force counterbalancing the confused evil that he perceived in the world;
when people got in trouble they were helped out of it; they were fixed up。 They
did not have to help themselves out of trouble。
(Please?)
There was no answer。
No answer; and if Tony came would it be the same nightmare? The booming; the
coarse and petulant voice; the blueblack rug like snakes? Redrum?
But what else?
(Please oh please)
No answer。
With a trembling sigh; he looked at the clockface。 Cogs turned and meshed with
other cogs。 The balance wheel rocked hypnotically back and forth。 And if you
held your head perfectly still; you could see the minute hand creeping
inexorably down from XII to V。 If you held your bead perfectly still you could
see that —
The clockface was gone。 In its place was a round black hole。 It led down into
forever。 It began to swell。 The clock was gone。 The room behind it。 Danny
tottered and then fell into the darkness that had been hiding behind the
clockface all along。
The small boy in the chair suddenly collapsed and lay in it at a crooked
unnatural angle; his head thrown back; his eyes staring sightlessly at the high
ballroom ceiling。
Down and down and down and down to —
— the hallway; crouched in the hallway; and he had made a wrong turn; trying
to get back to the stairs he had made a wrong turn and now AND NOW —
— he saw he was in the short dead…end corridor that led only to the
Presidential Suite and the booming sound was ing closer; the roque mallet
whistling savagely through the air; the head of it embedding itself into the
wall; cutting the silk paper; letting out small puffs of plaster dust。
(Goddammit; e out here! Take your)
But there was another figure in the hallway。 Slouched nonchalantly against the
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