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<p><font                               =20color=3D"#FFFFF4">Paul sat tight=
 and upright, a pulse beating rapidly in his scrawny throat.              =
                         =20Two in May.                                  =20=
She included Polaroids of Misery's Spinning Wheel, Misery's Escritoire (co=
mplete with a half-completed bread-and-butter note to Mr Faverey, saying s=
he would be in attendance at the School Hall Recitation on 20th Nov.      =
                             =20Sleepy fourth-floor dorm proctor hammering=
 on his door, telling him to come on and answer the fucking phone.        =
 =20There was silence for awhile, and then Annie put her spoon down, wiped=
 a mixture of chocolate syrup and melting ice-cream off her chin with the =
back of her hand, and said pleasantly: "Tell me the rest.                 =
                =20She would have asked for and gotten an unlisted number,=
 of course=A0=97 anyone tried for and acquitted of some major crime (and i=
f it had been Denver, it had been major) would have done that=A0=97 but ev=
en an unlisted number would not comfort a deep neurotic like Annie Wilkes =
for long.   =20It had been tidy before, but now there were dirty dishes st=
acked on every available surface; it looked to Paul as if every one in the=
 house must be here.You see how well I know you?                          =
 =20and her roommate.               =20She would not allow him to kill Mis=
ery.                      =20"I think I better go now.                    =
                =20He heard the clack as she put the rifle on the table.</=
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<p><font                                  =20color=3D"#FFFFF2">Paul had wa=
tched her plant the cross and then read the Bible over the grave by the li=
ght of a new-risen spring moon.                                 =20I think=
 the chances are very good that somewhere up ahead in these untumed pages =
I am going to find a brief article about you.  =20It wasn't just the worse=
ning pain in his legs; he was edging toward a state of terminal freak-out.=
                           =20His need for her and his vulnerability to he=
r screamed at him to back off, to placate her while there was still time i=
f indeed there still was=A0=97 as a tribe in one of -those Rider Haggard s=
tories would have placated their goddess when she was angry, by making sac=
rifice to her effigy.                                   =20"he tried to sc=
ream, but only got out Annie you before his head flew off and rolled to th=
e wall.                               =20Early yesterday afternoon I felt =
ever so much better=A0=97 I spent most of my time up there on my knees, de=
ep in prayer, and the answer came, as it often does, and it was quite simp=
le, as it often is.                                  =20But Geoffrey knew =
how deceptive that sleepiness was, had seen what happened to the Baroness,=
 and only thanked God that Ian had been spared that.    =20She came two or=
 three hesitant steps closer yet, and observed a hand reaching from the ea=
rth of a fresh grave, the fingers frozen in a hideous gesture of supplicat=
ion.                =20Goodbye to all that, he thought randomly, and then =
Annie was bustling back in with another tray.                        =20He=
 didn't stop hearing the riding mower, but its sound became deeper, roughe=
r, choppier: the sound of the electric knife.            =20He could see t=
he barnacles which encrusted them, could see pale drowned things lying lim=
ply in the clefts of the wood.                            =20And of all sh=
e had done to him, this resignation was surely a symptom of the worst=A0=97=
 she had turned him into a pain-racked animal with no moral options at all=
                   =20sometimes leaning one way, sometimes leaning the ot=
her, sometimes riding a little high on the line, sometimes dipping a littl=
e low.=20He had taken the aspirin instead of the drink, but that didn't ch=
ange what was going to happen now; he was going to sit here for fifteen mi=
nutes or maybe half an hour, looking at nothing but a cursor flashing in d=
arkness; then he was going to turn the machine off and have that drink.   =
                        =20More than anything else, that buttoned coat sug=
gested that Annie had been right: so far, this was just a routine check-ba=
ck.                           =20"They stared at the place where his foot =
wasn't for long long seconds and then McKnight whispered: "Good Christ.   =
                            =20She didn't hit him; she seized the front of=
 the robe he was wearing and dragged him forward until their faces were ne=
arly touching.                       =20Although Annie never said so, he b=
elieved she had filled in the n's either as another evidence of her solici=
tude=A0=97 How can you say I was cruel to you, Paul, when you see all the =
n's I have filled in?                                =20You were also Sche=
herazade to yourself, he thought, and looked at the barbecue pot.         =
                           =20She had a moment to wonder why such a holy p=
lace as a church should seem so frightening after dark, and then realized =
it was not the church.                                       =20Then she s=
et her dish down and looked at him angrily, not as if he were the great Pa=
ul Sheldon but as if he were someone who had presumed to criticize the gre=
at Paul Sheldon.                =20I read once about a way you're supposed=
 to find out for sure if someone has been snooping around in your drawers.=
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