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He
took
the
top
off
the
bucket
,
pissed
in
it
,
and
covered
it
once
more
.
According
to
his
watch
only
four
hours
had
passed
since
the
raid
on
the
restaurant
.
His
wallet
was
gone
,
but
they
had
left
him
his
coins
.
He
sat
on
the
chair
,
at
the
card
-
table
.
The
table
was
covered
with
a
cigarette
-
burned
green
baize
.
Shadow
practiced
appearing
to
push
coins
through
the
table
.
Then
he
took
two
quarters
and
made
up
a
Pointless
Coin
Trick
.
He
concealed
a
quarter
in
his
right
palm
,
and
openly
displayed
the
other
quarter
in
his
left
hand
,
between
finger
and
thumb
.
Then
he
appeared
to
take
the
quarter
from
his
left
hand
,
while
actually
letting
it
drop
back
into
his
left
hand
.
He
opened
his
right
hand
to
display
the
quarter
that
had
been
there
all
along
.
The
thing
about
coin
manipulation
was
that
it
took
all
Shadow
’
s
head
to
do
it
;
or
rather
,
he
could
not
do
it
if
he
was
angry
or
upset
,
so
the
action
of
practicing
an
illusion
,
even
one
with
no
possible
use
on
its
own
—
consider
,
he
had
expended
an
enormous
amount
of
effort
and
skill
to
make
it
appear
that
he
had
moved
a
quarter
from
one
hand
to
the
other
,
something
that
it
takes
no
skill
whatever
to
do
for
real
—
calmed
him
,
cleared
his
mind
of
turmoil
and
fear
.
He
began
a
trick
even
more
pointless
:
a
one
-
handed
half
-
dollar
-
to
-
penny
transformation
,
but
with
his
two
quarters
.
Each
of
the
coins
was
alternately
concealed
and
revealed
as
the
trick
progressed
:
he
began
with
one
quarter
visible
,
held
between
the
tips
of
his
forefingers
,
the
other
hidden
horizontally
in
the
fork
of
his
thumb
,
a
Downs
palm
.
He
raised
his
hand
to
his
mouth
and
blew
on
the
coin
,
while
slipping
the
visible
quarter
onto
the
tip
of
his
third
finger
and
pushing
it
into
a
classic
palm
,
as
the
first
two
fingers
took
the
hidden
quarter
out
of
the
Downs
palm
and
presented
it
.
The
effect
was
that
he
displayed
a
quarter
in
his
hand
,
raised
it
to
his
mouth
,
blew
on
it
,
and
lowered
it
again
,
displaying
the
same
quarter
all
the
while
.
He
did
it
over
and
over
and
over
again
.
He
wondered
if
they
were
going
to
kill
him
,
and
his
hand
trembled
,
just
a
little
,
and
one
of
the
quarters
dropped
from
his
fingertip
onto
the
stained
green
baize
of
the
card
table
.
And
then
,
because
he
just
couldn
’
t
do
it
any
more
,
he
put
the
coins
away
,
and
took
out
the
Liberty
-
head
dollar
that
Zorya
Polunochnaya
had
given
him
,
and
held
on
to
it
tightly
,
and
waited
.
At
three
in
the
morning
,
by
his
watch
,
the
spooks
returned
to
interrogate
him
.
Two
men
in
dark
suits
,
with
dark
hair
and
shiny
black
shoes
.
Spooks
.
One
was
square
-
jawed
,
wide
-
shouldered
,
great
hair
,
looked
like
he
had
played
football
in
high
school
,
badly
bitten
fingernails
,
the
other
had
a
receding
hairline
,
silver
-
rimmed
round
glasses
,
manicured
nails
.
While
they
looked
nothing
alike
,
Shadow
found
himself
suspecting
that
,
on
some
level
,
possibly
cellular
,
the
two
men
were
identical
.
They
stood
on
each
side
of
the
card
table
,
looking
down
at
him
.
