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that Harlan had been the only casualty. There was some perversity in the fact that Harlan had been the only one to find what we had all been looking for. His savagely mutilated body was destined to stay with me for a long, long time. |
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At Madden's insistence, a steely jawed, white-haired man who appeared to be in his sixties had been brought in from Kemper. Hawkins had struggled 60 miles through the fog to get him. His name was Russell Ferris, and he was a doctorthe only doctor, Jake informed me, in the quad village area of Kemper, Waverly, Chambers Bay and Loma. Now he was walking out of the cooler with a pipe firmly clenched between his teeth, a frown on his craggy face. He headed straight for us. |
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''That's the ugliest damned thing I've ever seen,'' the old man assessed dryly. |
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Madden gave him a half-grin. "What's it remind you of, Doc?" |
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The grizzled old medic rolled his eyes, thought for a moment and extracted the pipe. "Guess it comes closest to resembling some sort of a gorilla or a baboon." |
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"My associate back there in the cooler says the hide reminds her of a shark." |
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Russell Ferris shoved the pipe back in his mouth and grunted. "What would a pretty young thing like that know about sharks?" |
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Caleb Hall drifted over to the conclave just in time to catch Doc's remarks. "Just |
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