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I sat down and waited

The time would have passed faster if I could have read a book from the Tierneys' enorht in theI left the television set off for the saue was a proble to close I went into the kitchen, looking for soht keep round coffee beans in the refrigerator I stuck a handful inone from time to time I don't knohat did more for me, the caffeine or the bitter taste, but one way or another ot there, TJ's beeper sounded We'd worked out a whole systeit number I picked up the phone and dialed it

He answered the instant it rang His voice pitched low, he said, "We in the movies I followed him over to Broadway an' down You kno people keep lookin' over their shoulders, seein' if they bein' followed? He didn't do that"

"It's probably a good thing"

" 'Cept I thought oin' to duck into the ht the large-size popcorn I knew I didn't have to worry Man's in for the duration, Jason"

"You're in the theater?"

"Phone in the lobby I went in, sahere he's sittin' Soon's I hang up I'll go back where I can keep an eye on him Won't be keepin' no eye on the screen, tell you that You knohat he had to see?"

"What?"

"Jurassic Park"

"You already saw that, didn't you?"

"Seen it twice Man, I so sick of dinosaurs They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself"

The shoas scheduled to break at 10:15, and we added a new signal to our battery of codes At twenty after ten the beeper sounded and I saw that he'd punched in 5-6, indicating that they had left the theater In the course of the next hour he beepedhe was still in contact with Severance Another beep ca the building

I switched off the beeper I didn't want itany sounds I un, the one I'd been carrying since I got the first call that afternoon I turned it over in et accustomed to the feel of it

I put it incarefully but I didn't hear any footsteps The hallas carpeted and I guess thatI had of his presence was the sound of his key in the lock He opened one lock, and then there was a long pause, just long enough forThen I heard his key again and he opened the second lock I watched the doorknob turn, watched as the door opened inward

He caht, turned automatically to lock the door behind him

I said, "Severance!"

He spun toward the sound of un raised, and as he caave the trigger a squeeze It

He looked atfroers would not quite close on the dart He tried, God how he tried, but he couldn't do it

Then his eyes glazed over and he fell

I got another dart fro him for a few minutes, then bent over hiht two sets of handcuffs and I used the his feet together with the chain looped around a table leg

I went over and picked up the phone

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When he woke up I was the first thing he saas sitting on a foldingon awere free, but there was a thick steel cuff fastened around one ankle A chain was attached to it, its other end anchored to a plate in the floor

"Matt," he said "How'd you find me?"

"You weren't that hard to find"

"I spend two hours watching dinosaurs, I walk in the door, and whaet ht"

"Jesus, how long was I out? Couple of hours, it er than that, Jim"

" 'Jim' That's not what you called me just before you shot me"

"No"

"You called me another na I don't knohat you're talking about?"

"Not really"

"Of course if there's a tape recorder running-"

"There's not"

"Because I don't rehts"

"Nobody did"

"Maybe you ought to, huh?"