Chapter 16For the next week the quartet worked diligently to get all the rowhouses cleaned of dirt, dust, and other accumulated detritus. On the day when they set to work tearing up the carpet in 1029 the weather had turned cooler, the summer heat ceding to the arrival of autumn. They opened the windows as wide as possible, donned the face masks they’d bought and set to work.
“We should have done this first,” Snap grumbled at one point. “Now we’re going to have to clean the damned unit again because of all the dust and whatever this is making.”
Rudy chuckled. “By the time we’re finished we’ll be able to pass for dust bunnies.”
“No s**t,” Terry agreed, looking at his clothes that were now almost gray as a result of what they were doing. “I hope to hell this is just dust and not powder fr
