Terror as black as midnight swept through her。 She looked over her shoulder
and saw Jack getting slowly to his feet。
His back was bowed over; and she could see the handle of the kitchen knife
sticking out of it。 His eyes seemed to have contracted; almost to have lost
themselves in the pale; sagging folds of the skin around them。 He was grasping
the roque mallet loosely in his left hand。 The end of it was bloody。 A scrap of
her pink terrycloth robe stuck almost in the center。
〃Ill give you your medicine;〃 he whispered; and began to stagger toward the
stairs。
Whimpering with fear; she began to pull herself upward again。 Ten steps; a
dozen; a bakers dozen。 But still the first…floor hallway looked as far above
her as an unattainable mountain peak。 She was panting now; her side shrieking in
protest。 Her hair swung wildly back and forth in front of her face。 Sweat stung
her eyes。 The ticking of the domed clock in the ballroom seemed to fill her
cars; and counterpointing it; Jacks panting; agonized gasps as he began to
mount the stairs。
》
HALLORANN ARRIVES
Larry Durkin was a tall and skinny man with a morose face overtopped with a
luxuriant mane of red hair。 Hallorann had caught him just as he was leaving the
Conoco station; the morose face buried deeply inside an army…issue parka。 He was
reluctant to do any more business that stormy day no matter how far Hallorann
had e; and even more reluctant to rent one of his two snowmobiles out to this
wild…eyed black man who insisted on going up to the old Overlook。 Among people
who had spent most of their lives in the little town of Sidewinder; the hotel
had a smelly reputation。 Murder had been done up there。 A bunch of hoods had run
the place for a while; and cutthroat businessmen had run it for a while; too。
And things had been done up at the old Overlook that never made the papers;
because money has a way of talking。 But the people in Sidewinder had a pretty
good idea。 Most of the hotels chambermaids came from here; and chambermaids see
a lot。
But when Hallorann mentioned Howard Cottrells name and showed Durkin the tag
inside one of the blue mittens; the gas station owner thawed。
〃Sent you here; did he?〃 Durkin asked; unlocking one of the garage bays and
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