She had been down here. I took in another mouthful ofiron-tasting water and was so dazed I had to remind myself to spit itout, not swallow it. Somebody poked somebody else and the first thing Joe knew he was fighting a guy bigger 'n he was and police whistles blew and there was the whole crowd of them piled up in the Black Maria. I'd known I would find it--fromthe moment I'd felt that faintly tacky patch on the sign, I'd known--butI'd needed to see it for myself.
The alarm quit. Idrank the champagne by myself that time, and entered the last line bymyself as well (by then I was using a Maci The entire incident was history in five seconds. Five days of a heavy groundswel and they were inthe Straits of Gibraltar.
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