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第66部分(第4页)

(a fire? 。。。 in August? 。。。 yes 。。。 and no 。。。 all times are one)

There was a clock under a glass dome; flanked by two carved ivory elephants。

Its hands stood at a minute to midnight。 He gazed at it blearily。 Had this been

what Grady wanted him to see? He turned around to ask; but Grady had left him。

Halfway through 〃Ticket to Ride;〃 the band wound up in a brassy flourish。

〃The hour is at hand!〃 Horace Derwent proclaimed。 〃Midnight! Unmask! Unmask!〃

He tried to turn again; to see what famous faces were hidden beneath the

glitter and paint and masks; but he was frozen now; unable to look away from the

clock — its hands had e together and pointed straight up。

〃Unmask! Unmask!〃 the chant went up。

The clock began to chime delicately。 Along the steel runner below the

clockface; from the left and right; two figures advanced。 Jack watched;

fascinated; the unmasking forgotten。 Clockwork whirred。 Cogs turned and meshed;

brass warmly glowing。 The balance wheel rocked back and forth precisely。

One of the figures was a man standing on tiptoe; with what looked like a tiny

club clasped in his hands。 The other was a small boy wearing a dunce cap。 The

clockwork figures glittered; fantastically precise。 Across the front of the

boys dunce cap he could read the engraved word FOOLE。

The two figures slipped onto the opposing ends of a steel axis bar。 Somewhere;

tinkling on and on; were the strains of a Strauss waltz。 An insane mercial

jingle began to run through his mind to the tune: Buy dog food; rowf…rowf; rowf…

rowf; buy dog food 。。。

The steel mallet in the clockwork daddys hands came down on the boys head。

The clockwork son crumpled forward。 The mallet rose and fell; rose and fell。 The

boys upstretched; protesting hands began to falter。 The boy sagged from his

crouch to a prone position。 And still the hammer rose and fell to the light;

tinkling air of the Strauss melody; and it seemed that he could see the mans

face; working and knotting and constricting; could see the clockwork daddys

mouth opening and closing as he berated the unconscious; bludgeoned figure of

the son。

A spot of red flew up against the inside of the glass dome。

Another followed。 Two more splattered beside it。

Now the red liquid was spraying up like an obscene rain shower; striking the

glass sides of the dome and running; obscuring what was going on inside; and

flecked through the scarlet were tiny gray ribbons of tissue; fragments of bone

有尸无还  末世之猎食禁止 作者:璃九笙  末世佣兵系统  一代媚后乱君心  乱世帝王  家有匪婆 完结  秦亡新论  偷不走的宝石  历史的空白处  入殓师灵异录  天师执位Ⅱ_7 双劫 下  璞玉惊华  安德的影子  雷神之祖  圣地系列:十字墓园  北斗推理剧场  不为人知:潮汕民间灵异怪谈  铁血征程  穿越之公主至尊  左 青 石  

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