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  In the back of the limo were two dozen avocados; a crate of cucumbers; ditto 
oranges; ditto grapefruit。 Three shopping sacks filled with Bermuda onions; the 
sweetest vegetable a loving God ever created; some pretty good sweet peas; which 
would be served with the entree and e back uneaten nine times out of ten; and 
a single blue Hubbard squash that was strictly for personal consumption。 
  Hallorann stopped in the turn lane at the Vermont Street light; and when the 
green arrow showed he pulled out onto state highway 219; pushing up to forty and 
holding it there until the town began to trickle away into an exurban sprawl of 
gas stations; Burger Kings; and McDonalds。 It was a small order today; he could 


 
 
have sent Baedecker after it; but Baedecker had been chafing for his chance to 
buy the meat; and besides; Hallorann never missed a chance to bang it back and 
forth with Frank Masterton if he could help it。 Masterton might show up tonight 
to watch some TV and drink Hallorann's Bushmill's; or he might not。 Either way 
was all right。 But seeing him mattered。 Every time it mattered now; because they 
weren't young anymore。 In the last few days it seemed he was thinking of that 
very fact a great deal。 Not so young anymore; when you got up near sixty years 
old (or tell the truth and save a lie — past it) you had to start thinking about 
stepping out。 You could go anytime。 And that had been on his mind this week; not 
in a heavy way but as a fact。 Dying was a part of living。 You had to keep tuning 
in to that if you expected to be a whole person。 And if the fact of your own 
death was hard to understand; at least it wasn't impossible to accept。 
  Why this should have been on his mind he could not have said; but his other 
reason for getting this small order himself was so he could step upstairs to the 
small office over Frank's Bar and Grill。 There was a lawyer up there now (the 
dentist who had been there last year had apparently gone broke); a young black 
fellow named McIver。 Hallorann had stepped in and told this McIver that he 
wanted to make a will; and could McIver help him out? Well; McIver asked; how 
soon do you want the document? Yesterday; said Hallorann; and threw his head 
back and laughed。 Have you got anything plicated in mind? was McIver's next 
question。 Hallorann did not。 He had his Cadillac; his bank account — some nine 
thousand dollars — a piddling checking account; and a closet of clothes。 He 
wanted it all to go to his sister。 And if your sister predeceases you? McIver 
asked。 Never mind; Hallorann said。 If that happens; I'll make a new will。 The 
document had been pleted and signed in less than three hours — fast work for a 
shyster — and now resided in Hallorann's breast pocket; folded into a stiff blue 
envelope with the word WILL on the outside in Old English letters。 
  He could not have said why he had chosen this warm sunny day when he felt so 
well to do something he had been putting off for years; but the impulse had e 
on him and he hadn't said no。 He was used to following his hunches。 
  He was pretty well out of town now。 He cranked the limo up to an illegal sixty 
and let it ride there in the left…hand lane; sucking up most of the Petersburg… 
bound traffic。 He knew from experience that the limo would still ride as solid 
as iron at ninety; and even at a hundred and twenty it didn't seem to lighten up 
much。 But his screamin days were long gone。 The thought of putting the limo up 
to a hundred and twenty on a straight stretch only scared him。 He was getting 
old。 
  (Jesus; those oranges smell strong。 Wonder if they gone over?) 
  Bugs splattered against the window。 He dialed the radio to a Miami soul 
station and got the soft; wailing voice of Al Green。 
 
    〃What a beautiful time we had together; 
    Now it's getting late and we must leave each other。。。〃 
 
  He unrolled the window; pitched his cigarette butt out; then rolled it further 
down to clear out the smell of the oranges。 He tapped his fingers against the 
wheel and hummed along under his breath。 Hooked over the rearview mirror; his 
St。 Christopher's medal swung gently back and forth。 


 
 
  And suddenly the smell of oranges intensified and he knew it was ing; 
something was ing at him。 He saw his own eyes in the rearview; widening; 
surprised。 And then it came all at once; came in a huge blast that drove out 
everything else: the music; the road ahead; his own absent awareness of himself 
as a unique human creature。 It was as if someone had put a psychic gun to his 
head and shot him with a 。45 caliber scream。 
  (!!! OH DICK OH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE E!!!) 
  The limo had just drawn even with a Pinto station wagon driven by a man in 
workman's clothes。 The workman saw the limo drifting into his lane and laid on 
the born。 When the Cadillac continued to drift he snapped a look at the driver 
and saw a big black man bolt upright behind the wheel; his eyes looking vaguely 
upward。 Later the workman told his wife that he knew it was just one of those 
niggery hairdos they were all wearing these days; but at the time it had looked 
just as if every hair on that coon's head was standing on end。 He thought the 
black man was having a heart attack。 
  The workman braked hard; dropping back into a luckily empty space behind him。 
The rear end of the Cadillac pulled ahead of him; still cutting in; and the 
workman stared with bemused horror as the long; rocket…shaped rear taillights 
cut into his lane no more than a quarter of an inch in front of his bumper。 
  The workman cut to the left; still laying on his horn; and roared around the 
drunkenly weaving limousine。 He invited the driver of the limo to perform an 
illegal sex act on himself。 To engage in oral congress with various rodents and 
birds。 He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to 
their native continent。 He expressed his sincere belief in the position the 
limo…driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife。 He finished by saying that he 
believed be had met the limo…driver's mother in a New Orleans house of 
prostitution。 
  Then he was ahead and out of danger and suddenly aware that he had wet his 
pants。 
  In Hallorann's mind the thought kept repeating 
  (E DICK PLEASE E DICK PLEASE) 
  but it began to fade off the way a radio station will as you approach the 
limits of its broadcasting area。 He became fuzzily aware that his car was 
tooling along the soft shoulder at better than fifty miles an hour。 He guided it 
back onto the road; feeling the rear end fishtail for a moment before regaining 
the position surface。 
  There was an A&W Rootbeer stand just ahead。 Hallorann signaled and turned in; 
his heart thudding painfully in his chest; his face a sickly gray color。 He 
pulled into a parking slot; took his handkerchief out of his pocket; and mopped 
his forehead with it。 
  (Lord God!) 
  〃May I help you?〃 
  The voice startled him again; even though it wasn't the voice of God but that 
of a cute little carhop; standing by his open window with an order pad。 
  〃Yeah; baby; a rootbeer float。 Two scoops of vanilla; okay?〃 
  〃Yes; sir。〃 She walked away; hips rolling nicely beneath her red nylon 
uniform。 
  Hallorann leaned back against the leather seat and closed his eyes。 There was 


 
 
nothing left to pick up。 The last of it had faded out between pulling in here 
and giving the waitress his order。 All that was left was a sick; thudding 
headache; as if his brain had been twisted and wrung out and hung up to dry。 
Like the headache he'd gotten from letting that boy Danny shine at him up there 
at Ullman's Folly。 
  But this had been much louder。 Then the boy had only been playing a game with 
him。 This had been pure panic; each word screamed aloud in his bead。 
  He looked down at his arms。 Hot sunshine lay on them but they had still goose… 
bumped。 He had told the boy to call him if he needed help; he remembered that。 
And now the boy was calling。 
  He suddenly wondered how he could have left that boy up there at all; shining 
the way he did。 There was bound to be trouble; maybe bad trouble。 
  H

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