The Laughing Man

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165, on 109th Street near Amsterdam Avenue.†

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The next month or so, she played baseball with the Comanches a couple of times a week (whenever she had an appointment with her dentist, apparently).†

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For sheer sport, the Laughing Man usually went halfway with them, then vanished, often leaving no even faintly credible indication of his escape method.†

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"I don't care," Mary Hudson said distinctly, "I came all the way to New York—to the dentist and everything—and I'm gonna play."†

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It was a story that tended to sprawl all over the place, and yet it remained essentially portable.†

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He shrugged slightly, as much as to imply, it seemed to me, that the picture had more or less been planted on him.†

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Just now and then he posted an incisive little farewell note in the Paris sewerage system, and it was delivered promptly to Dufarge's boot.†

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There were twenty-five Comanches in the Club, or twenty-five legitimate living descendants of the Laughing Man—all of us circulating ominously, and incognito, throughout the city, sizing up elevator operators as potential archenemies, whispering side-of-the-mouth but fluent orders into the ears of cocker spaniels, drawing beads, with index fingers, on the foreheads of arithmetic teachers.†

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For sheer sport, the Laughing Man usually went halfway with them, then vanished, often leaving no even faintly credible indication of his escape method.†

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Properly infuriated, the Laughing Man pushed off his mask with his tongue and confronted the Dufarges with his naked face by moonlight.†

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I had no idea what was going on between the Chief and Mary Hudson (and still haven't, in any but a fairly low, intuitive sense), but nonetheless, I couldn't have been more certain that Mary Hudson had permanently dropped out of the Comanche lineup.†

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And always waiting, waiting for a decent chance to strike terror and admiration in the nearest mediocre heart.†

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Rainy afternoons, the Chief invariably took us either to the Museum of Natural History or to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.†

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In consequence, when the Laughing Man breathed, the hideous, mirthless gap below his nose dilated and contracted like (as I see it) some sort of monstrous vacuole.†

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Bleeding profusely and cut off from his supply of eagles' blood, he had never been closer to death.†

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As a precaution against breaking my bogus mother's heart, I planned to take her into my underworld employ in some undefined but appropriately regal capacity.†

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He took Mary Hudson aside, just out of earshot of the Comanches, and seemed to address her solemnly, rationally.†

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He subsisted exclusively on rice and eagles' blood, in a tiny cottage with an underground gymnasium and shooting range, on the stormy coast of Tibet.†

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He summoned them to fetch Omba, the lovable dwarf.†