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covered it. It was doubly curious when you consider that the logic tree is one of the old boy's pet testing devices. On the other hand, maybe the old geezer had a new gimmick. |
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At any rate, the results of the logic tree exercise did confirm one nagging suspicion, and that was simply that so far there was no logic to the pattern. We had victims who were brutally assaulted and still others who had been carved up with near surgical precision. We had young victims and old victims, boys and girls, men and women, and our creature hadn't confined his activities to humans, eitherwitness the destruction of two sheep and a horse. And, if that wasn't enough, we had situations involving total destruction and still others where the only thing disturbed was one or two vital organs. |
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B.C. stayed with her snowballing list of variables longer than I would have, but finally she demonstrated her frustration by throwing her pencil down and muttering an emphatic ''damn." |
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By nine-thirty the fog had peeled back slightly, and I was able to see all the way across the motel parking lot to the dense growth of pine on the other side of the highway. It was just enough to make me decide to give it a try. It had cleared enough that B.C.'s constitution was renewed, and our accomplishments were going to be minimal if we continued to sit in our motel |
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