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Roland didn’t know about his friends, but he didn’t think he himself could have spoken even if called on to do so. “The ones out at Hanging Rock will hear the shooting once it starts, won’t they?” Al asked. “I ain’t going to toss you over, because then I’d have to toss Clay over and follow along myself. od all the stuff’s the samego slow past the drawersall the stuff’s the same blahblah blah blah blah blahblah blah Blai

“Problem?”Jonas was standing in the doorway to the bathroom, wiping shaving soap from his face with the end of the towel laid over his shoulder. “Tell him he’s wrong. “Except for the fireworks, that’s what we liked about it most. He was half-convinced it would be gone, or that it would say something else (MID-WORLD TOLL ROAD, perhaps, or BEWARE OF DEMONS), but it was still there and still said the same thing.