"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."
