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Show 119 I lived on the telephone. I never slept, so I could keep an eye on him." "Oooh, so who so who?" said Edju. "Red!" screamed Jon. "Red!" Red looked at Helen. He stretched the bowling ball out to the length of his arm. Edju looked at Red. Jon began to choke him. "Edju, take us to Stanley's!" Elizabeth stepped in saying "Now, now. Now, now," and Jon grabbed her too. "I can't stay here!" screamed Jon. "The children," said Helen. She stepped in and Jon brushed her away. Red looked at Bush who nodded. "Okay, Red," she said. Helen tried to xix-x step in again, but Red removed her. Then he got Aunt Elizabeth out of Jon's hand, all this with just his left k hand because in his right he still had that bowling ball, pumping iikxkax^i like a cat's tail. Finally Red xiaxxxstxaixK^ stuck his arm between Jon X and Edju, and Edju backed away dusting himself off and Jon hung on Red's extended arm. Red put his hand in Jon's chest a and pushed him against the wall next to the front door. "I'll take you home now," Red said to Bush. "No," said Jon. "You'll never get me in that x car with you again. Edju," pleaded Jon, but now Edju was hiding behind Aunt Elizabeth and Bush. Helen stepped to Jon a£ again but he quickly grabbed her by the throat. "You're with him," said Jon. "You're with him against me." "I'm your sister, Jon," gasped Helen. "I wouldn't hurt you. Red wouldn't hurt you." "You're lying," cried Jon. "You've been won over and you're lying. You think I'm crazy." "No," said Helen. "Yes!" screamed Jon, and he iigkxsxx tightened his grip on Helen's throat then flung her across the room. He stepped from the wall toward Red, but he never had a prayer- Red launched that bowling ball from a distance of about eight feet, he claimed accuracy from thirty, and it caught Jon right in the chest, driving him through the vestibule door, then the front door, then the screen door, none of which were on too good anyway since Red's door days, and sending Jon sprawling on the porch floor flat on his back, the black bowling ball agllt clutched liishis thin white hands. We all rushed to |