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pain, Saar's pain was not, he chided himself, beyond the<br />

will's power to deny it.<br />

Someone was trying to open the door of the toilet.<br />

Who could it be? the headmaster snarled at the mirror.<br />

Ernest Ransom? Both the old Bredforets? Everyone<br />

else in Dingley Falls known to the good Dr. Jekyll was<br />

obviously on this train. Why not those three? Why not<br />

the entire board of trustees? You deserve this, losing<br />

your driver's license to a hustler. Mr. Hyde grinned. The<br />

evil image cackled at the unfortunate Walter Jekyll's<br />

discomfort.<br />

"Know what I did this morning?" Dingley Falls's<br />

postman asked his superior.<br />

Judith Haig turned toward Alf Marco, who slumped<br />

forward in his chair beside the table where they sorted<br />

outgoing mail that the truck from Argyle would pick up<br />

at five.<br />

"Know what I did?" he repeated. "I got up real<br />

early. I went up to the lake. And I went fishing."<br />

Marco's drawn, pinched face, so at variance with his<br />

fleshy torso, looked up at the postmistress with more

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