I had my cassette recorder right next to the clock radio, all ready to go, but I’d missed the whole show. I reached for a pencil and paper to write myself a reminder note for next time when I realized what I was doing. I was putting off entering the tunnels. Despite what I’d told Claude, I was terrified at what I’d find, especially since I’d made up my mind between his house and mine that I wouldn’t just listen, that I’d bring the Pantown skeleton key and break into Ant’s house and then the one I believed to be Sheriff Nillson’s. My heart lurched sideways just thinking about it. But if Maureen
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