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Tuesday morning at 8:50 her husband, Hawk, left the<br />

police station, where he had sat since 7:00 A.M. to<br />

protect Dingley Falls. He drove across the rickety<br />

bridge and returned with his wife. The dogs returned to<br />

the trailer park, but they watched her go by.<br />

At 9:05 Sammy Smalter came to her post office<br />

window, where he handed up one of his usual packages<br />

addressed to New York.<br />

At 9:20 Prudence Lattice, who had nothing else to<br />

do, opened her Tea Shoppe.<br />

At 9:21 Limus Barnum went in there for a cup of<br />

coffee. He brought his own doughnuts in their<br />

cellophane wrappers and a magazine for men.<br />

At 9:30, after the jog around Elizabeth Circle and<br />

the light but fibrous breakfast whereby he maintained a<br />

form trim enough to don, if need be, the World War II<br />

captain's uniform boxed up in his attic, Ernest Ransom<br />

arrived at his bank, where he learned he had sold three<br />

hundred shares of United Chemicals at a considerable<br />

profit.<br />

At 10:30 Polly Hedgerow, having already scored at<br />

least 98 percent on her history final and having decided

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