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Saturday
"What is it?" Cathy asked.
He shook his head but didn't say anything,
just opened the front door and held it for her. She walked in, then
stopped in the small living room and looked around: furniture was
overturned, drawers pulled out and their contents strewn across the
carpet; trash cans emptied, and broken bits of knickknacks littered
the floor. Danny and another man lifted a reclining chair which had
been pushed onto its side. In the kitchen, Mary Sue Danforth
exclaimed over the genealogy of the perpetrator.
Lowell walked across the room and put a hand
on Danny's arm. "Don't touch anything else," he warned, then
called, "Mrs. Stark, Mrs. Danforth, come in here, please."
"What happened?" Cathy asked.
"Just a minute," Lowell answered as Danny's
mother and aun
