"Maître Carvin was a cool customer, neither impatient nor hot- tempered, and when Lamarre and Kernorkian came to his chambers to summon him over to the station, interrupting him when he was busy at work, he merely asked forfive minutes to clear his desk, and followed them without demur."
"'I first heard the story of the Donner Party as a young boy growing up outside San Francisco,' Benton began."
"The story I'm about to tell now will clarify (or perhaps further confuse) the dynamic of an episode described many pages back in this story."
"Everything that happened in western Montana happened in one of the valleys between mountain ranges."
"The clear glass table meant that I had to work extra hard to stop my knee from jerking up and down."
"So I allowed Zou Zou to kit me out for the garden party."
"Drex stepped out of the shower and reached for his ringing cell phone, which he’d balanced on the rim of the sink."
"“Everyone scram! This is a crime scene!” yelled Chief Badger. “You’ll trample the evidence! Beat it. Scoot. Skedaddle! Everyone, step back!"
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