"And you don't get that?" Jack asked Wireman and...
"And you don't get that?" Jack asked
Wireman and I looked at each other, then at Jack
again
"You haven't been watching the right movies," he
said"Silver bullets are what you use to kill
werewolvesI don't know if silver works on
vampires or not, but obviously somebody thought it
did
"If you're suggesting Tessie and Laura Eastlake
are vampires," Wireman said, "they must have built
up a hell of a thirst since 1927 He looked at me,
expecting corroboration
"I think Jack's onto something," I saidI took
the bottle of peroxide, dipped the finger I'd
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pricked into it, and splashed the bottle up and
down a cartier replica watch ladies santos 100 steel couple of times
"Man-law," Jack said, grimacing
"Not unless you were planning to drink it," I said,
and after a moment's consideration Jack and I both
burst out laughing
"Huh?" Wireman asked
"Never mind," Jack said, still grinningThen he
grew serious again"But there are no such things
as vampires, EdgarThere could be ghosts, I'll
give you that much - I think almost everyone
believes there could be ghosts - but there's no
such thing as vampires He brightened as an idea
struck him"Besides, it takes a vampire to make a
vampireThe Eastlake twins drowned
I picked up the short harpoon again, turning it
from gucci uk side to side, making the reflection from the
tarnished tip tumble along the wall"Still, this
is suggestive
"Really," Jack agreed
"So's the unlocked door you found when you brought
the picnic basket," I saidThe
canvas that was lifted out of the rack and put
onto the easel
808
"You saying it was the crazy librarian after all,
amigo?"
"No My voice cracked, brokeI had
to take another sip of water before I could say
what needed saying"Just that maybe vampires
aren't the only things that come back from the
dead
"What are you talking about?" Jack asked
"Zombies?"
I thought of the Perse with her rotting fendi b belt black leather sails
"Let's say deserters
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"Are you sure you want to be here alone tonight,
Edgar?" Wireman asked"Because I'm not sure it's
such a great ideaEspecially with that stack of
old pictures for company"You have
succeeded in giving Wireman a first-class case of
the willies
We were sitting out in the Florida room, watching
the sun start its long, slow decline toward the
horizonI had produced cheese and crackers
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"I'm not sure this will work otherwise," I said
"Think of me as a gunslinger of the art worldI
paint alone, podner
Jack looked at me over a fresh glass of iced tea
"You're planning to paint?"
"Well - vintage fendi bag sketchIt's what I know how to do And
when I thought back to a certain pair of gardening
gloves - HANDS printed on the back of one, OFF on
the back of the other - I thought sketching would
be enough, especially if I did it with little
Elizabeth Eastlake's colored pencils
I swung around to Wireman"You have the funeral
parlor tonight, correct?"
Wireman glanced at his watch and heaved a sighThere's another
visitation tomorrow from noon until twoRelatives
from afar will come to bare their teeth at the
usurping interloperThen the
final act, day after tomorrowFuneral at the
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