How to use "have" in a sentence

It will be good to have company for a while.

'We can finish the west canyon trail, go back to our truck and have a few beers.'

I will have to be careful

I have all the equipment I need in my backpack

For food, I have two burritos

I also have a full water bottle and an extra two litres in a CamelBak.

I will have to be careful.

Already, I have broken my rule to be sensible.

I have no idea how long I will be here

All of this means that I will have to get out of here alone

I wonder how long I'll be able to survive with the water I have left, only two-thirds of a litre

More success, but my left arm hurts and I have to stop.

I have decided to do this every ninety minutes

I will have to think of something else.

The optimistic feelings of earlier in the day have disappeared

That leaves only the third, and worst, plan: I will have to amputate my right arm

None of my plans have worked

I have been trapped in Blue John Canyon for the last twenty-four hours

I now have only a quarter of a litre of water left

I have to make this last as long as possible

The mosquitoes have found me

The mosquitoes have gone

All I have for the time I've spent on this is a long red line across my right arm

I now have only about one-eighth of a litre left.'

It will soon be all you have to drink.

Soon, I will have to start drinking urine.

It's exactly 8.00 am and all I have to drink now is urine.

I have no idea how long anyone can survive on urine alone

I have found the best way to sit and feel calmer in the warm air

Three hours later, I have reached the end of my third day trapped in the canyon

None of my plans of escape have worked

'I have no idea where he is.

It would have to wait until the morning.

I start to have visions

During the second half of the night, I have visions of myself as a child

Something about the visions tells me that I have not given the people I care about enough attention

I have a new idea

I continue, but soon have to stop because of the pain in my left hand

By 6.00 pm, I have taken off more of the boulder in three hours than I did in four days

I have been awake for over a hundred hours

When I have finished I read them by the light of my headlamp: ARON OCT 75 - APR 03.

Around midnight, I have another vision

What have you done now? asks the first voice.

That means I won't have to cut through bone anymore

I get lost up a side canyon and have to turn round

Now I only have the water in the water bottle

For someone close to death I have done well

By two-thirty, I have covered nearly ten kilometres

'I have a problem with needles

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You will stay here with me, but you will have the same freedom everyone else on the ship has."

We have wonderful food, and your rooms are very comfortable."

"You have things here that most people only read about, Captain."

When we re near land, we have to try to escape."

One afternoon, while the Nautilus was on the surface of the water, I went upstairs to have a look outside

"I have a man who needs help

Could you have a look at him?"

The Nautilus did not seem to have any particular direction

"I have a little surprise for you, Professor."

"Did it have eight tentacles like snakes coming out of a big round head?"

"And did it have a mouth and nose like a bird's?"

We have to try!"

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'Perhaps I'm going to come out in Australia! I'll have to ask the name of the country

I'll have to send them to you!'

'I have an idea,' said the Dodo.' We all want to get warm

So let's have a race - a Caucus race.'

So everybody can have a chocolate.'

'But Alice has to have something, you know,' said the Mouse.

'What can you have?' he asked.

'I can have the box,' said Alice sadly.

One old bird said, 'I really have to go home

It didn't have the words 'DRINK ME' on it, but she drank from it.

'I have to get bigger again,' said Alice

'But how? I have to eat or drink something, but the question is - what?'

'Why do I have to tell you?' asked the Caterpillar.

'Here, you can have it now,' site said

'I have to get ready

'I'll have to take this child away from here, or they'll kill it!' she thought

'No, we don't have time,' said the Mad Hatter.

And I don't have time for anything.'

So how can I have some more?'

'You can have more,' the Mad Hatter said

'You can have more than nothing.'

'You have to talk to me, you know.'

'We have to call people into the room, and ask them questions.'

'You have to remember,' the King said, 'or I'll cut off your head.'

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I can think things OK, but when I have to say them or write them down, sometimes they come out all wrong

She wasn't angry about the cinema, and she asked me to have a drink with her!

'Forrest,' he said, 'all year we have secretly taught you to catch the ball and run with it

But I have to say this: the people in the army shouted louder and longer than anybody!

One evening we went to have a shower

She looked at him and said, 'I won't get you anything - not as much as a glass of warm river-water, you pig!' Then she looked at me and said, 'And how many babies have you killed today, you big ape?'

But the next minute we were kissing and making love! And when we finished, Jenny said, 'Forrest, where have you been all this time?'

'Do you have a telephone number, or anything?' I asked.

'I have to catch a bus.'

I knew then that I didn't have an idiot for a son

'How long have we been friends, Forrest? Thirty years? Sometimes it doesn't seem true.' She moved nearer, and gave me a kiss

'Perhaps I can put things right with Jenny,' I thought, 'now that I've found her again.' But the more I thought about it, the more I finally understood that it was better for the boy to be with Jenny and her husband, and not to have an idiot for a father.

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We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now

And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny

And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations

Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells

And some of you have come from areas where your quest - quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality

You have been the veterans of creative suffering

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of ''interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists

I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive branch of the government

They have conducted it through many perils, and generally with great success

So far as possible, the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thought and reflection

Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from - will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal

I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution - which amendment, however, I have not seen - has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service

To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied Constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.

The chief magistrate derives all his authority from the people, and they have conferred none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the states

By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals

Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either

You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors

YOU have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."

Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection

Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

What is this non-cooperation, about which you have heard much, and why do we want to offer this non-cooperation?

I have been told that noncooperation is unconstitutional

On the contrary, I have said it repeatedly to my countrymen that violence, whatever end it may serve in Europe, will never serve us in India.

What is more, I have done every one of these things in my life, and nobody has questioned the constitutional character of it.

I say to my countrymen so long as you have a sense of honour and so long as you wish to remain the descendants and defenders of the noble traditions that have been handed to you for generations after generations; it is unconstitutional for you not to non-cooperate and unconstitutional for you to cooperate with a Government which has become so unjust as our Government has become.

Until we have wrung justice, and until we have wrung our self-respect from unwilling hands and from unwilling pens, there can be no cooperation

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance

Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; and the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone

Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for

Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it

Primarily, this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and have abdicated

True, they have tried

But their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition

Faced by failure of credit, they have proposed only the lending of more money

Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence

They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.

Yes, the money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization

It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities that have a definitely public character

If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize, as we have never realized before, our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress can be made, no leadership becomes effective.

Action in this image, action to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors

The people of the United States have not failed

In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action

They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership

They have made me the present instrument of their wishes

For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.

To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger

Hope you have enjoyed the reading!

Most people have a chance to see exciting events in their lives

I too, have seen exciting things in my thirty years of work.

About two weeks later I went to have dinner with a friend of mine

He was the most brilliant man I have ever known in the insurance profession

I have said that I disliked Mr Slinkton when I first saw him in the insurance office

'I have only heard stories about it,' he said

I can see that, Mr Sampson, but I, too, have suffered a terrible loss recently

I have two nieces, you see

'I have come back,' he said, 'because I want to find out what my friend has done with the insurance forms

'Miss Niner.' I said urgently, 'I have something to tell you

'Hey! Julius! Come in here and have a drink!' he called.

The three of us have saved your niece's life!'

'I have done what I promised to do.' Meltham said sadly to me

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One of the poorest areas in London, Whitechapel did not have many street lamps

She told the deputy that she did not have any money, but asked him to keep her bed because she wanted to return with the money

There were lots of suspects at the time, but the police did not have any real evidence against them

In the case of Elizabeth Stride, from the descriptions by Constable Smith and Israel Schwartz we have a man between 28 - 30 years old, 1.65m to 1.70m tall, wearing dark clothes and a hat with a peak, or perhaps a deerstalker

Some writers have asked why he did not go to the police before the inquest

Did he make a false statement and give a false description? Did he have something to hide?

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'I have money.' The stranger produced an old leather purse from his jacket.

'So I don't have to pay?'

'Before you leave tomorrow, you must have a bowl of warm milk from our cows.'

I should have given it away a long time ago.'

'Jean Valjean,' the bishop continued, 'I've bought your soul from the Devil, and have given it to God.'

'Please, Monsieur, may I have my coin?'

'I'm a chimney sweep, and that money is all I have.'

'You have two very pretty children, Madame,' a voice said from close beside her.

'I have to find work, and that's not easy with a child but no husband

'You will have them,' said Fantine, assuming that she was talking to Mme Thenardiers husband

'I have eighty francs.'

'Does the child have enough clothes?' the man asked.

'The child is lucky to have a home at all,' they told everybody.

Fantine, who did not have ten francs, but who was afraid that her daughter would freeze to death, went to the barber's shop

What could she do? She had sold her hair and her teeth; what else could she sell? And then she decided that she had no other choice: she would have to sell herself.

Now I've become a bad woman, but what choice did I have? I'll never get my daughter back if I don't make money.'

And I promise that, in the eyes of God, you have never been a bad woman.'

'I'm sure you have other work to do.'

He knew - although he was not happy to admit this - that he would have to go to Arras and tell the truth

He would also have to break his promise to Fantine about bringing Cosette from Montfermeil

But what choice did he have? The truth was more important than anything else.

At first, no one believed him, but he managed to persuade the court by skilfully questioning each of the witnesses, revealing personal information that only the real Jean Valjean could have known

'I have important business to attend to

'If you don't come with me now, I'll have to call my men.'

As they were approaching the inn, Cosette turned to him and said, 'May I have the bucket now? If Mme Thenardier sees that someone has been helping me, she'll beat me.'

It must have fallen from the child's pocket.'

We have so many expenses

We have our own daughters to look after

It's true we're poor, and we have bad debts, but love is more important than money.'

'I must have been dreaming yesterday,' he laughed to himself

How could I have thought such a thing? After speaking to him this evening, I can see that he doesn't look like the inspector at all.'

'He can't have escaped

'You have no money, and I am rich,' he said

Pontmercy, wanting his son to have a good life, had sadly given him to M

Realizing that one of the girls must have dropped it, he picked it up and called after them, but it was too late

My warm-hearted neighbour, I have heard of how you kindly paid my rent for me six months ago

But my eldest daughter will tell you that my wife is sick and none of us have had any food for four days

He moved away from the girl's touch and said, 'I think, Mademoiselle, that I have something belonging to you.' He handed her the parcel of letters.

'If they had had another neighbour,' he thought, 'one who had noticed their suffering, perhaps they could have been rescued by now.'

'They may have to cut off her arm.'

'Five francs is all I have with me,' he said

She did not reply but stood thoughtfully looking at him, seeming to have lost all her earlier confidence

'Tomorrow you'll have fur boots!' her father called out after her.

But, unfortunately, I have to sell it

But he would also have broken his promise to his father

I realize that you don't have the money with you now, but I want you to write a letter

You have no chance

'He must have been the cleverest of them all, 'Javert murmured angrily to himself.

'My father said that we may have to leave,' she replied.

'Father told me this morning that I have to pack everything and be ready to leave for England within a week.'

Marius turned his back to her and said, 'Then I shall have to go away.'

But listen to me - I have a plan

At last! After four years! Was it really him? He wanted to open his arms and hug him, but all he said was, 'What have you come for?'

'Monsieur, I ask you to have pity on me

I know I'm not welcome here, but I have come to ask for only one thing

'I have come to ask your permission to get married.'

'Well then, I imagine the lucky girl must have money.'

Your wife will have to count the sous when she goes to the market, won't she?'

'So you said to yourself, "I'll have to go and see him, that old fool

Today you have insulted my future wife

'What have I done? This time he'll never come back.'

'I have a letter for you in my pocket

I have no money, and neither have you

I have a letter for a girl who lives here.'

For the sake of Cosette's happiness, he would have to try and save the life of the man she loved - the man he hated more than any other in the world.

They did not have long to wait.

'You can have your spy.'

It was a situation that only a bird could have escaped from

'There's something I have to say to you,' Marius told his grandfather one day.

You will have your little girl.'

'You will have her,' the old man repeated

'I have the honour, on behalf of my grandson, Marius Pontmercy, to ask for your daughter's hand in marriage.'

Marius hugged Valjean warmly, addressed him as 'father' and invited him to lunch, but Valjean shook his head and said, 'Monsieur, I have something to tell you.'

Finally, in a state of shock and confusion, the young man said, 'Why have you told me all this? No one forced you to.'

'If I had continued to keep my secret to myself, I would have destroyed my own heart,' Valjean replied

Please Monsieur, if I can't see Cosette again, I'll have nothing left to live for

You have a husband.'

'I have a secret to tell you, M

'I have more information to tell you

'I repeat, you have nothing to tell me.'

'Shall I tell you the secret that you were planning to sell me? I, too, have sources of information, and probably know more about the subject than you do

'What proof do you have?' Marius said, wide-eyed with disbelief.

'I have all the proof here,' Thenardier said, producing an envelope in which there were several documents and newspaper articles

'Look, I have a piece of cloth from the dead man's coat as proof.'

You came here to destroy a man, but you have done the opposite

'You have no need to say all this,' Valjean murmured.

If you had known the truth, you would have felt obliged to be good to me, a worthless criminal

That would have upset everything.'

'What or whom would it have upset?' Marius said

I want you to have no great sorrows

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She was greatly amazed to see how her grandmother looked in her nightclothes, and said to her, "Grandmother, what big arms you have!"

"Grandmother, what big legs you have!"

"Grandmother, what big ears you have!"

"Grandmother, what big eyes you have!"

"Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!"

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I try to remember anything, but I cannot! I have no idea who I am.

Why am I here? I ask myself, but I have no answer

"Hello handsome," she always says to me, "another day at the office?" And I never say much, but I do not have to: we understand each other without words

I expect him to have dark eyes and dirty hair, but he does not

"Don't!" says the man, as if he can see my intention in my eyes, but I have to

We all have the same white and orange uniforms, the same caps, the same silver sunglasses

but what do you want? You have my money."

"No! I can't, I don't have that sort of money

"And you now have a decision to make because we have no time

This is it, we have to go now

I have a plan, Darling..

Darling, I have a plan

"What sort of person wants to have a holiday in this remote, ugly part of the world?"

"Sorry to bother you, but do you have a lighter?"

"Shall we have a little drink?"

You have that little red sports car, don't you?"

I have a small media company."

"Do you have her confession?" the figure says.

"Do you have Miss Thornton's confession?" the figure repeats.

I have all the diamonds right here

"You have to look good, kid

You have to look like them," he says.

A woman's bag is the best: they have more things in them

If you get a woman's bag, you sometimes have to run."

They all have a camera and are all taking photos

He thinks that maybe Nick would know, that Nick would have some advice.

She is a quiet young thing, and beautiful too, and Carolina likes to have beautiful things around her, so she is more than happy to talk for both of them.

"It's fantastic," Eleanor says, and again Carolina is very happy to have a new companion.

"You see, we all have very different ideas about what the perfect murder is

In fact, I have an idea for a story: an idea I think about occasionally."

They have a terrible reputation in Bristol, and there is not one of them that does not scare Nick.

Do you have any proof? No

If you have to

You only have time to shout two words...

"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned." And again there is a long silence

A bank, Father, and they have insurance and all that, so they don't need it

Yes, I think I might have a lot more to confess tomorrow

And this one, he hopes, will have a little more respect for him and won't laugh at him.

Lots of people have problems out here

I have my licence here and the registration."

We tell them to tell the parents they can have the kid when they leave us the money

You don't have a job

Everything they have is better

If you ask for more, you have to wait, and then there is the risk that they contact the police

We tell them they only have six hours

"We have to go!" Brandon shouted

Sometimes he prefers to have a sherry and a cigar and nothing more

"Does Mr Fletcher have any good friends here? Or more importantly, enemies?"

Didn't they have some sort of fight recently, Miss White?"

Well, I suppose we could have a look around the school..."

We take one or two rabbits home and we have a little fun

If you have no gun, then there is no problem; we can come back for the gun another day

It doesn't have to be every weekend if Junior does not want to, but occasionally

if you have no gun, then there is no problem..."

And he wasn't a funny guy, and he didn't have much luck with the ladies

And sometimes I have to do things to protect my business

I have all my knitting things in here." The old woman looks very upset and apologetic.

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"We have Space 234

"I have something for you

"I have something for you, too."

Then they changed to a sunny park, like the ones that their city used to have, and sat down to talk.

It was one thing to have a pod experience - but to stay inside the pod was something else

"Gran, I have something for you!"

I think she must have followed me

"Did you have a nice time with Cham?"

You shouldn't have bought us such an expensive present - I mean, it's wonderful, but you don't have enough money

So I thought, hey, yes - that's a great idea, I don't have to actually do it-"

You have to remember that his situation is different from yours

And when there's so little work available, most people have no hope of changing their lives

But of course it can't have come in from outside..

But that fruit - someone must have found it in a closet or somewhere."

"But who would have sent it without a note? Gran thinks..

"Well, we're going to have a pod experience together, right? Then we'll know how it feels

You have to be seventeen and I've still got two months to go."

They didn't have long to wait

Did you have a wonderful trip?"

"If I didn't have you, I'd sign up for Pod Life, I think."

But you'll have to save some money first."

But we have all the technicians we need

what we have." Gran nodded wisely.

"But you have to be sure, Cham

"We have each other," said Cham

"If there's a better world out there, we have to find it."

Dad came home with the news yesterday afternoon, and he and Mom have been really depressed ever since."

I don't have a choice."

"Cham, you have to do what's right for you

"Does this have anything to do with his dad's work?"

I want you to know that I have a good, happy life with my wife

Our two sons are doing well, and we have three grandchildren

We have a very nice house near the ocean and there are wild roses in the garden, just as there were when we were young

Here, we are free, and we have beauty all around us, but my heart breaks when I think of you trapped in that city, like a bird in a cage.

"I have to tell Cham

"We also don't know anything about the people who have brought this message," Gran pointed out

"But meanwhile, we do have to be very careful

"But you have to promise not to tell anyone

"We have to wait for the woman to contact us again."

"Why not? I told you - I have to."

We just have to find a way to get there..."

I have to live in the real world, Sala."

After that, you'll have two days of tests, to check that your body is behaving normally under pod conditions."

"Can he have visitors then?" Sala enquired eagerly.

Cham's parents asked a lot of questions, and Leti seemed to have an answer for everything

You will also have one Ultranet Talk Hour per week to speak to friends and family

She arrived early and didn't have to wait in line, so in a few minutes, she was stretching her legs and then running mechanically, left-foot right-foot, on the machine.

I have to do this

This was crazy; she shouldn't have come

People who still have relations on the other side, and who might risk trying to leave."

We now have a secret agent, working within the government

"You have to promise to keep it a secret first."

We have the letter from Gran's brother

You have to pay if you want to cancel

"But you have to promise me

"I have news, Mom

It took a moment for her words to have an effect.

I have my job..."

We want to have them beside our beds, so we can think of you every night." Cham looked over at Sala apologetically

You'd have to imagine them." Sala giggled

I have to go."

She'd just have to wait for Wena to appear again.

"What have you been doing?" she asked.

We have to learn all about the history of the government and things like that

We have a plan, remember."

I have to go."

"Did you have a nice talk with Cham?" asked Gran.

I don't have to go inside..

we don't have proof of anything."

We have plans, remember?"

"The letter from Gran's brother." The words slipped out before she could stop herself, and she knew at once that she shouldn't have said it

We have to report anything we think is strange

We have to get him out

"We have to get him out!" Gran and Mom fell silent

Of course, they would have seen that Cham had changed! And they'd permit him to leave the pod at once if they thought it was damaging him.

"I have to talk to them

It's not fair that we have to stay here."

I'm going to have to be blunt, thought Sala

She would have to persuade Cham to leave by herself

She wasn't even sure if his family would give them time alone together - but she'd have to make sure it happened

"Do you think we could have a few minutes to talk on our own, at the end of the hour?"

"And we have news."

We have proof

We could have a different future

"You have to join us in the pods

"If you don't, I'll have to report all this

I have to keep you safe."

"But how have they persuaded him to think like that?" asked Sala

"Anyway, we don't have a clue where the rebels are," said Gran

If he hadn't been so generous, buying her that pod experience, none of this would have happened.

It might be the last real moment with him she'd have.

Awareness is the greatest weapon you have

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What would I be today if I had not gone to Monte Carlo with Mrs Van Hopper? I would have lived another life

I would have become a different person.

We must have looked a strange pair as we walked into the hotel restaurant that day

You must have heard of it - a beautiful old house in the west of England

'You must have a drink with me,' she said

'You have flu, Madame,' the doctor told her

'I want you to have lunch with me

I have to, I need the money

I have no family and there is nothing else I can do.'

I have a sister, but that's all.'

'You forget,' I told him, 'that you have a home and I have none.'

But instead he said, 'Well, I suppose you have a holiday this afternoon

'I should not have brought you up here

Yes, I have been here before, many years ago.'

I wanted to have something of his now that our day was over.

'You never have any drawings to show me

I have forgotten the places we went to, but I have not forgotten the excitement of those mornings

If we had driven round-in circles, I would not have cared

I have told you everything

If you had not been here, I would have left long ago

They must have been full of the life they had shared.

My unhappiness must have shown on my face.

'Well, you'll have to get used to New York, that's all

You'll have to arrange everything at once

'You haven't got a cold, have you?' said Mrs Van Hopper when she saw my face.

'We ought to have gone on the earlier train.' She looked at her watch

'I have to

It's a pity you have to grow up,' he said.

'I haven't done this very well, have I?' Maxim said

We'll have a quiet wedding

'Where have you been? What have you been doing all this time?'

You won't have to say anything

'It won't take long and then you can have your tea in peace.'

'They have been getting the rooms in the east wing ready for us

The rooms here have been specially arranged for you.'

'I suppose you have been at Manderley for many years,' I said.

I have been looking after the house for the past year

But you don't have to

I suppose she wants to have a look at you.'

'I'm afraid you have made a mistake,' I said

'I'm very sorry to have disturbed you, Madam.'

Rebecca would not have answered like that

'Major and Mrs Lacy have been here some time,' she said

'Where have you been hiding? Here is Beatrice and this is Giles

'Let's hope you have made him forget all about it

'I'm afraid we're going to have some rain,' he said

'We should have stayed in Italy,' Maxim said

It must have come from the raincoat pocket

The raincoat, too wide, too long for me, must have been hers too

I smiled and said, 'We have not decided

There have been so many things to do.'

I heard myself saying, 'Rebecca must have been a wonderful person...'

Do ask your husband to have another ball.'

'I have been hearing about the Fancy Dress Ball, Frank,' I said

'It must have been a lot of work,' I said

'Couldn't anyone have helped her?' I asked.

'I am so glad you have married Maxim

I was glad to have something at Manderley that belonged to me

She says that Robert must have taken it or broken it

'You broke it? Why didn't you say so when Frith was here? You'll have to explain to Mrs Danvers now.'

Even when we have visitors, you sit on the edge of your chair and say only "yes" and "no".'

I have broken one of their wedding presents.

I was sure that Maxim would have a terrible accident or even be killed

I have never seen anyone more surprised.

'I have enjoyed meeting you,' Favell said, standing by his car

'Shall I come and have lunch with you today?'

'You are not going to have a baby, are you?'

Maxim would be so happy to have a son

What have you been doing with yourself? Have you done much sketching? Did you like the books I sent you? Have you had anyone to stay?'

I won't even have him in the gardens

Frank Crawley had come to lunch and the three of us were hoping to have a quiet afternoon

'We have all been thinking about it

We'll have the dance

'Then I suggest that you have your costume made in London, Madam

I have always liked the picture of the girl in white,' Mrs Danvers went on in the same friendly way.

I would have to wear a wig over my own straight hair

'You will both have the surprise of your lives.'

'Are you ready? I want to have a look at you.'

'What have I done?'

'You could not have known.'

'I ought to have known,' I said.

'If you loved him, you would never have married him,' Mrs Danvers said.

'What have I done to you?'

I would not have to think about Rebecca any more...

Tell Mrs Danvers to have food and drink ready for the men

He must have gone out with Maxim

The police will have to know too.'

'Do we have to tell him?' I asked.

You have to find out who it was

When people have a great shock, they feel nothing at first

'We have no time

De Winter will have to say that the body in the boat was the late Mrs de Winter

You have lost that young, sweet look

In twenty-four hours, you have grown so much older.'

'Accidents have happened before,' the Coroner said

'Mr de Winter,' the Coroner said, 'you have heard James Tabb's evidence

'You have told us that the door and windows of the cabin were shut?'

'They may have to go over the evidence again.'

I must have fallen asleep

We'll have children too, I promise you

'I have nothing more to say.' Favell laughed.

'I have enough evidence to hang you, Max.'

If it was something important, she would have told me.'

I have written it here.' And Frank held out a piece of paper.

She had been going to have a child

'There must have been something wrong with her after all.'

We might have to stay overnight in London

We have come about the death of the late Mrs de Winter

You may have read the report in the papers.'

'If you have any record of a visit on that day, could we see it?' Colonel Julyan asked

'An operation would have been useless

In six months, she would have been dead.'

But the pain would have come

The X-rays showed that she could never have had a child

'I am glad to have been of some use,' said Dr Baker

Why don't you have a holiday, go abroad perhaps

We would have people to stay

And soon, very soon Maxim and I would have children.

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'I have a drink for you, Nathan,' she says.

'You have a movie to finish, remember!'

First we have to stop The Cat.'

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And if that were the case, then he might have ended up in a foster home, in a new life

Time should have put even more distance between her and the anguish, but instead the passing days were bringing her around full circle in her grief

She would never forget him, that sweet child who had been such a large part of her, but she would no longer have to live her life around the gaping hole that he had left in it

It must have been a large object because, though muffled by the intervening walls, the sound was loud enough to rouse her.

What if they came, lights flashing and sirens screaming - and found no one? If she had summoned the police every time that she imagined hearing a prowler in the house during the past two weeks, they would have decided long ago that she was scramble-brained

She almost would have preferred to discover someone lurking in the kitchen or crouching in a closet rather than be forced to look, at last, in that final space where sadness seemed to dwell like a tenant

She certainly couldn't share with him her appraisal of the situation: Danny, sweetheart, don't worry about anything you might have heard through the wall

It couldn't have fallen by itself.

Therefore, the words must have been here all along

Danny must have left them before he died

Nevertheless, he must have done it

Must have.

Joel was an odd little man: five-feet-four, slightly chubby but not fat, with curly brown hair that appeared to have frizzed and kinked in response to a jolt of electricity

Joel had convinced her that she'd have no difficulty matching his pace or meeting his standards, and that she was equal to the challenge

Now they seemed to have shaped a hit show together.

If the audience at this evening's VIP premiere reacted enthusiastically, she might have to buy lead weights to keep herself from floating off the floor when she walked.

But even if Vivienne had kept her scheduled appointment, she never would have written those words on the chalkboard

She thought: My God, I've been letting myself dry up! How could I have forgotten this!

Now that she had spent more than a year grieving for her broken marriage and for her lost son, now that Magyck! was almost behind her, she would have time to be a woman again

But the Evans house didn't have an alarm system.

She would have been lovely enough if her eyes had been dark, in harmony with the shade of her hair and skin, but they were crystalline blue

He said, "How can Batman wear an armored rubber suit all the time and not have a chronic rash?"

"I guess you'll have to be here most nights for a long time to come."

I just have to check on the show once every couple of weeks to make sure the tone of it isn't drifting away from my original intention."

I won't have to hang around the stage

He says I'd just make the performers nervous and cause the technicians to look over their shoulders for the boss when they should have their eyes on their work."

in between all that popping in and out of Magyck! Do you think you'd have time for dinner?"

"Will you have dinner with me tomorrow night?"

For almost five minutes, the room seemed to have come alive.

If he became verbally violent and abusive, if he were irrational, she would need to have a clear head to deal with him

The closet doors were open, and all the clothes inside appeared to have been thrown on the floor

If the mess had been here when Vivienne arrived, the old woman would have cleaned it up and would have left a note about what she'd found

"Your ad in the Yellow Pages says you can have a man here to change my locks in one hour."

"But if you just put your name on our work list, we'll most likely have a man there by four o'clock this afternoon, tomorrow morning at the latest

What possible excuse could he have? What twisted logic could justify this sort of sick behavior? It was crazy, hateful.

"Michael, I have to talk to you."

If it's really a bad one, he finds out his pipes have blocked up

At last, she said, "Some strange things have been happening at the house."

I shouldn't have bothered you with this

"I ought to have called the police right away."

We can have it again if we really want to try for it."

She had been determined that neither of them would have reason to feel that his importance in her life had diminished

The only way she could have held on to her husband would have been to abandon her new career, and she had refused to do that.

Standing before her in the sunshine, his white shirt shimmering with squiggles of reflected light that bounced off the parked cars, he favored her with that self-satisfied, superior smile that made her feel as cold as this winter day ought to have been.

It's good for you to have something to dabble in

But with Magyck! Running successfully, you won't have all that much to do

We have time to start another family

But we can take care of two easily enough, and maybe we'll get lucky and have one boy and one girl

I knew what you wanted to say, but I should have let you say it at your own speed

I have the intelligence and the talent to be more than just one thing

Why on earth would I? What do you have to give me that I can't get elsewhere? You've never been much of a giver anyway, Michael

You could have taken Danny away for the weekend if you didn't want to be near me

You could have gone camping with him

You could have taken him down to Disneyland for a couple days

You could have enjoyed that time with your son

You could have had that precious time with him

And as it turned out, Danny didn't have much time left."

She was crying for all the things that might have been, and for what could never be again.

Only a skilled burglar could have broken in without leaving a trace

It could tell her each man's preferred brand of liquor, each wife's favorite flower and perfume, the make of car they drove, the names and ages of their children, the nature of any illnesses or other medical conditions they might have, their favorite foods, their favorite colors, their tastes in music, their political affiliations, and scores of other facts both important and trivial

Besides, Angela couldn't have broken into the house

But how could any stranger so easily gain entrance to both her house and the hotel computer? Didn't he, after all, have to be someone she knew?

How could the temperature have dropped so far in such a short time? She listened for the sound of the air conditioner, but the telltale whisper wasn't issuing from the wall vents

She took a step toward him, but then she realized that he might have come here straight from a computer in one of the other third-floor offices

"Who could you possibly have been seeing? They've all gone home

And if he were lying, he wouldn't have told her the story about Charlie and coffee, for that could be substantiated or disproved with only a minimum of effort; he would have come up with a better alibi if he really needed one

They drove up a steep, abandoned logging trail, a deteriorated dirt road so treacherous, so choked with snow, so icy that only a fool would have attempted to negotiate it any way but on foot."

"Someone could have programmed it to spew out this stuff about Danny," Elliot said

"Could the temperature change have been subjective?"

"You must have somebody in mind."

"He says I never should have let him go with Jaborski

"Could have done it in my sleep."

I always have this powerful feeling that Danny isn't really dead

"You have a pretty high opinion of me."

Neither of us would have been anxious to view the body even if it had been in perfect shape, so we accepted the mortician's recommendations

"How could he have survived the accident you described?" Elliot asked.

"And where would he have been all this time if not..

If I'd seen the body, then I'd have known for sure

"Well, there's no urgent legal reason to have the body exhumed

If that were the situation, we'd have the grave opened very quickly

"In fact, I have," Elliot said

The next day she seemed to have a touch of flu, and the third day she was dead

I arranged to have the grave reopened

"Ordinarily I'd say we'd have to wait until Monday

Even if he does somehow get a whiff of it, he'll have to locate another judge who'll be willing to stay or vacate the exhumation order."

"You have a pretty high opinion of me," he said, repeating what she had said to him earlier.

All the talk about death and fear and madness and pain seemed to have taken place further back in the past than a mere few seconds ago

They wanted to have a little fun during the evening that lay ahead, and now they began putting themselves in the mood for it.

"When I was poor, I looked forward to the day when I'd have a lovely home full of beautiful things, all arranged by the very best interior decorator

I wanted to have all the fun myself

"I mean, I thought it must have been a divorce or something."

Her smile was so lovely that he could have stood there all evening, just staring at the sweet curve of her lips.

"They not only have good hamburgers-"

"Their hamburgers have a pleasant used look."

"A cook doesn't have to be graceful to be a good cook."

"Does he have to have a good memory?"

I wouldn't want to have to mix this damn stuff three times."

"I guess I'll have to eat that crow now."

He may have leaned toward her, or perhaps she tilted toward him

Good, healthy lovemaking with a man who cared for her would have helped her recover much faster than she had done, for sex was the antithesis of death, a joyous celebration of life, a denial of the tomb's existence.

The exhumation of Danny's body would be good for her, regardless of the horror that she might have to confront when the coffin lid was raised

Certainly, the unknown person who was harassing Tina might have violent intentions

At night, the view of Las Vegas from the mountainside was undeniably spectacular, but Elliot couldn't understand what other reasons anyone could possibly have for choosing to live here rather than in the city's older, greener neighborhoods

Although a judicial purist might have disapproved, prosecutors and public defenders and tax attorneys and criminal lawyers and corporate counsel were mingling and getting pleasantly drunk with the judges before whom they argued cases most every week

"Nevertheless, I have a duty to protect everyone's interests in the matter."

We simply don't have enough judges or enough money

"And you'll have the grave reopened by tomorrow afternoon."

In the middle of the block, Kennebeck finally said, "I'll have to chew on it for a while, Elliot."

He had a few chores to finish before she came, so they wouldn't have to spend a lot of time doing galley labor as they had done last night

In freshly pressed slacks, a crisp blue shirt, a patterned tie, and a gray sports jacket, he might have been a professional hit man uncomfortably gotten up for the baptism of his Mafia don's grandchild

"And when you've finished, I'll have a brain the consistency of grape jelly."

"Now," Vince said, "counselor, are you going to walk over to the table and sit your ass down, or am I going to have to motivate you with this?" He gestured with his pistol again.

"The only way you could have found out about the exhumation so quickly is if Kennebeck told you."

Elliot pretended not to have heard the threat

You don't have to be so hard-assed with me

We just have to find out exactly why the Evans woman wants the grave reopened

We have to know if someone's ratted to her

But we don't have anything against you

If they had intended to let him live, they wouldn't have used their real names in front of him

And they wouldn't have wasted so much time coaxing him to cooperate; they would have used force without hesitation

"If you bastards want me to sit down at that table, you're going to have to drag me there."

How could she have dreamed about this hideous creature just last night and then find it waiting for her here, today, only hours later?

She must have seen this lurid cover illustration when Danny had first brought the magazine into the house

Do you have a gas stove in the kitchen?"

I think all the houses in this area have gas furnaces

I'd better have a look at it, check the fittings, the incoming feed, all that."

As far as Elliot was concerned, the absence of ID was more sinister than a collection of patently false papers would have been, because this absolute anonymity smacked of a secret police organization.

If these people were determined to kill him just to stop the exhumation, they would have to kill Tina

The vision was so vivid, so disturbing, that she and her husband raced back to the city that very night to have the grave reopened at dawn

She put the magazine aside, cover-down, so she wouldn't have to meet Death's wormy, red-eyed gaze.

He could not have been buried alive

Her sudden gullibility dismayed and alarmed her, because it indicated that the decision to have Danny's body exhumed was not having the stabilizing effect on her emotions that she had hoped it would.

She must have glimpsed the grotesque figure of Death on the cover of the magazine when Danny first brought the issue home from the newsstand.

She had paged through only two of the magazines Danny had bought, the first two, when she had been trying to make up her mind whether such unusual reading material could have any harmful effects on him

She went back to the bed to have another look at the magazine, which she'd left there.

"I have suitcases in my bedroom closet."

"We have to wait for the fire company."

"What do they have to do with Danny?"

He wheeled around another corner, and then another, trying to disappear from the men in the van long enough to leave them with so many choices of streets to follow that they would have to give up the chase in confusion

Elliot wondered how Tom would have reacted if they had shrieked into his garage in an old battered Chevy.

Sol said we were to pull in, out of the driveway, so that he'd have a place to put the boat when he got here with it."

"Lady," Tom said, "I don't have the foggiest

He'll have come to his senses and scrammed by now

We can hide from them for a long time if we have to

If they have a judge in their pocket, why not a few cops?"

Maybe he's still on the payroll of some spook shop, and maybe the whole plan was for him to pretend to retire and then get elected as a judge here in Vegas, so his bosses would have a friendly courtroom in town."

He might as well have saved his breath

"But even if Kennebeck's bosses have a lot of influence with the Vegas police, would the cops let us be killed? Would they really let it go that far?"

"What kind of government agency would have the authority to circumvent the law like this? What kind of agency would be empowered to kill innocent civilians who got in its way?"

"That we'll have to handle this all by ourselves?"

But once those seeds are sown, once the parents of the other scouts and the entire city are clamoring for an investigation, Kennebeck's buddies won't have anything to gain by eliminating us

And now, just when I'm beginning to think I can face up to it and put it behind me, I discover he might not have died accidentally after all

"And I sure wouldn't choose to have my nice, peaceful, quiet life turned upside down

a new kind of energy you didn't have this morning."

"Then you must have seen the magazine before and you just-"

How long have you known Christina Evans?

What reason does she have to doubt the official story of her son's death?

Does she have any proof that the official story of her son's death is false?

Even after all this time, when she thought about Danny's last moments on earth - the terror he must have known, the excruciating pain he must have endured, even if it was of brief duration - she began to choke with sorrow and pity

If they hadn't seen their kids' bodies, they might have just gone through a year of doubt like you did, might be easily persuaded to join us in a call for the reopening of all the graves

Do you have anyone in mind?"

I think we'll have to take the story out of town, and before we do that, I'd like to have a few more facts."

But if we go to the press in Los Angeles or New York or some other city, the reporters there aren't going to have a whole lot of interest in it unless they see an aspect of the story that lifts it out of the local-interest category

"I don't have anything worked out yet

But it seems to me the most obvious thing we have to consider is that the scouts and their leaders saw something they weren't supposed to see."

I can't see what else would have brought an organization like Vince's so deeply into this

If you put a secret installation in the middle of all that lonely land, you have a pretty easy job maintaining security."

Chilled, Tina said, "But how much could the kids have seen? You're the one who said security was easy to maintain when one of these installations is located in the wilderness

The boys couldn't have gotten very close to such a well-guarded place

Surely they couldn't have managed to get more than a glimpse."

If they had seen something, they'd have come back with at least a dozen different stories about it, none of them accurate

But a bunch of hard-nosed security men might not have seen it that way."

"Well, they'd have had to be pretty stupid to think murder was the safest way to handle it

People might have discounted most of what the boys said about it, but they'd have believed Jaborski and Lincoln

"We have to."

"And Kennebeck's cronies have almost certainly put a watch on the place

So if we can't examine the body, we'll have to do the next best thing

We'll have to talk to the man who saw it last."

We might eventually have to talk to him, but first we should pay a visit to the mortician who handled the body

Besides, if we're face-to-face with him, we'll have a better idea of whether or not he's telling the truth

We have to go up there."

And I have a strong feeling we'll find it in Reno."

"Anyway, we have to learn what really happened in the Sierras

"I don't have any money with me

We're supposed to have heat in here tonight, not air-conditioning."

"You must have done something to it," Al said

"What are you talking about? Did you see what I saw in there? Did you hear the jukebox? I don't see how that could have cheered you up

Jaborski, Lincoln, and all the other boys might have died in the Sierras, but Danny didn't

"The game must have been rigged," Elliot said

Somehow, his abilities have grown a lot stronger

Do you have a better explanation for what happened in the diner?"

He can't send 'concise mental messages' because he doesn't have that much power or control

We just have to flow with events."

We have some shopping to do

Furthermore, keno was a game that didn't have any appeal for either smart gamblers or cheaters, the two types of customers who most interested the security men

Willis Bruckster was so sure he appeared dull and ordinary that he wouldn't have been surprised if a guard had looked at him and yawned.

It might have been a bitter divorce.

He stopped to have a word with a strikingly pretty cocktail waitress, and she smiled at him

As Bruckster pocketed the miniature aerosol device, he said, "We have a sick man here."

No one could have seen the murder

Even if someone had been monitoring that area from an overhead camera, there would not have been much for him to see.

Surely, if someone from Project Pandora had told her what had happened to that busload of scouts, she wouldn't have reacted to the news with equanimity

She would have been frightened, terrified..

She would have gone straight to the police, the newspapers - or both.

But on the other hand, she was working through Stryker to have her son's grave reopened, which seemed to indicate that she knew something.

Christina Evans probably hadn't entertained a single doubt about the official explanation of the Sierra accident; she probably hadn't known a damned thing about Pandora when she had requested an exhumation, but her timing couldn't have been worse.

If the woman actually hadn't known anything of the cover-up, then the Network could have used her ex-husband and the legal system to delay the reopening of the grave

In the meantime, Network agents could have located a boy's body in the same state of decay, as Danny's corpse would have been if it had been locked in that coffin for the past year

They would have opened the grave secretly, at night, when the cemetery was closed, switching the remains of the fake Danny for the rocks that were currently in the casket

Then the guilt-stricken mother could have been permitted one last, late, ghastly look at the remains of her son.

That would have been a complex operation, fraught with the peril of discovery

The risks would have been acceptable, however, and there wouldn't have been any need to kill anyone.

"He's bound to go to the police at some point, and then we'll have him."

"If he thought he could get any help from the cops, he'd have been there already," Kennebeck said

If he's aged as well as he seems to have done, then he might even be sharper these days."

Meanwhile, we're checking out Stryker's associates in his law firm, his friends, the woman's friends, anyone with whom they might have taken refuge."

"You don't have enough manpower to follow up all those possibilities," the judge said

"He'd have had to take off in the dark," Alexander said

You couldn't have known what would happen after I talked to Kennebeck."

"If it wasn't me, it would have been some other attorney

And maybe he wouldn't have known how to handle Vince

"If they actually headed for Flagstaff," Alexander said, "they ought to have landed by now

I still think you could have avoided issuing all those termination orders

We have to go after these two with more care than usual

"We have a pretty good hold on him

We put a freeze on his application with the Bureau of Immigration, and we threatened to have him deported if he didn't do what we wanted

"He should have built a double blind to protect himself."

"Our people in Reno will have to move fast, but they'll manage

Because it was important for the men who worked in the large room to have an unobstructed view of the smaller inner chamber at all times, four angled ceiling vents in both rooms bathed the glass in a continuous flow of warm, dry air to prevent condensation and clouding

"If it stays cold in there for long, we'll have to suit up, go in, and move him to another chamber," Zachariah said.

"Then we'll have to move the animals

He's more important because he's a human being, not because he's a source of data, Dombey thought angrily, but he didn't voice the thought because it would have identified him as a dissident and as a potential security risk.

Instead, Dombey said, "We won't have to move him

I don't have much to say about research policy around here."

"You don't have anything to say about it," Dombey told him bluntly

He didn't have any choice but to commit the installation to it once we found out the damn Chinese were deeply into it

If you have to blame someone because you're feeling guilty about what we're doing here, then blame the Chinese, not me."

We don't have any choice but to maintain a strong defense

"What choice do I have?"

Tina didn't have to be told to remain silent

Elliot was worried about her, afraid for her, but at the same time, he was glad to have her company.

"If you hadn't, he would have killed us."

"I would have thought..

They embraced, and then she said, "If they knew we were flying to Reno, why didn't they follow us from the airport? Then they would have known we weren't going to walk in the front door of Bellicosti's place."

"We have been followed," Tina said.

They must have just now homed in on it."

What's that? You mean we're bugged? Then we'll have to abandon the car, won't we?"

But you have to move fast

He felt along the inner faces of the fenders, around the tire wells, where a transponder could have been stuck in place quickly and easily

In the morning we'll have clearer heads, and the answers will all seem obvious."

"I wish we didn't have to give up the car," Tina said as he took their only suitcase out of the trunk.

"Listen, if I could get my hands on the people who're trying to keep us from finding Danny, I wouldn't have any compunctions about killing them

We're built to survive, even if we have to kill someone in order to do it."

The Network was clandestine and must remain clandestine if it was to have any value

His taste for violence would not have been tolerated for long in the old FBI - perhaps not even in the new, thoroughly politicized FBI - or in many other congressionally monitored police agencies

But I have this feeling that if we just find some way..

Her expression would have been appropriate to the face of a gypsy fortune-teller peering with a clairvoyant frown at tealeaves.

"I suppose any sporting-goods store in Reno ought to have maps of at least the nearest parts of the Sierras."

She said, "People who believe in the occult have a thing they call 'automatic writing.' Ever hear of it?"

"Don't you have to be in a trance, like a medium at a seance?"

His hair was razor-cut, and he groomed his mustache so meticulously that it almost appeared to have been painted on his upper lip.

"And we don't have much time," Tina said

Sandstone didn't have the faintest idea why they were in Reno or what they were seeking in the mountains.

"You don't have time to tell me about it now

Apparently, Billy liked his view of the world to be as neat and uncluttered as everything else about him; if he started believing in ghosts, he'd have to reconsider his opinions about a lot of other things too, and then life would become intolerably messy.

Snowshoes in case we have to walk very far in open country

Tina said, "Elliot, what happens if we stay here, hiding out until we can think of an alternative? How much time do we have? Not much

"One thing I learned in the military was you have to stop and regroup your forces once in a while, but if you stop too long, the tide will turn and wash right over you."

If we're lucky, we'll have Danny when we come out, and he probably won't be in any condition to trek through the Sierras in the dead of winter."

"I have an Explorer," Billy said.

"I guess I could have some money transferred from my Vegas bank," Elliot said

"I have an Explorer," Billy Sandstone said.

"I have an Explorer!" Billy said.

And you know what a ticky-tacky airport they have at Tahoe

That's really what I most wanted to be, but I didn't really have the skill for it

I just have to know how you did that trick with the drapes, the roses

And the corners of the map! I just have to know."

Elliot said, "Billy, do you have a tape recorder?"

"It doesn't have to be fancy," Elliot said

"We still have dangerous work ahead of us

"Can a couple of people like us really have a chance of winning when we're up against something as big as the government itself?"

Alexander never liked to have worthy opponents

Even if she had not known that these deep woodlands harbored secrets about Danny and the deaths of the other scouts, she would have found them mysterious and unnervingly primeval.

If the rescue attempt went smoothly, as Tina's dream seemed to predict, they wouldn't have any need for much of what they bought

Perhaps they would have been smarter to turn around, go back to Reno, find another hotel room, and get a fresh start in the morning

The spot doesn't have all the spectrographic characteristics of a tumor."

could the parietal spot have a direct connection with the frost somehow?"

If you keep coming up with weird suggestions like that, I'll have to run a maintenance check on you, Carl."

"It's a damned good thing we have four-wheel drive."

Now what? You don't happen to have a key card, do you?"

"What if Danny didn't have anything to do with it? They might just be letting us in so they can trap us inside."

"I'll have to go for him."

"He must have."

"Someone, some damn turncoat on Project Pandora, must have revealed enough about its location for them to find it with just a little help

Where were they getting their strength, their nerve, their endurance? It seemed as if they must have some advantage of which Alexander was not aware

They had to have some advantage he didn't know about

"They can get inside easily enough if they have a friend in there."

And they have a cellular backup

"And if you want it easy," Alexander said, "you shouldn't have come to work for me

This broad shelf in the mountainside couldn't have been as large or as regularly shaped in its natural state as it was now: three hundred yards wide, two hundred yards deep, almost a perfect rectangle

But if this is a military operation, then most of the staff is probably assigned here under the same conditions submariners have to live with

How long could Danny continue to pave the way? The boy appeared to have some incredible powers, but he wasn't God

We have to be ready to kill them or put them out of action some other way."

"If we have a choice," Tina said, "I'd rather use rope than bullets."

"But we're sure going to have fun trying!"

"-the better chance we have of getting out alive."

"We have some questions, and you two better have the answers."

She could not have said anything else that would have had a fraction as much impact on them as the words she'd spoken

Zachariah regarded her as he might have done if she had been dead on the floor and then miraculously risen.

"I'll have to tie and gag Dr

It'll take us a little longer that way, but at least we'll have a fighting chance

At any one time, we have thirty to forty projects underway."

This is the only facility of its kind we have

The Chinese have three like it

I suppose we have to learn to live with the lesser of the evils."

"To understand that," Dombey said, "you have to go back twenty months

The victim simply ceases to have a pulse, functioning organs, or any urge to breathe."

To Dombey, she said, "Surely you have safeguards, procedures to follow when and if-"

"He must have reached the scouts five or five and a half hours after he was infected

Both Jaborski and the other scout leader decided they might have a dangerous character on their hands

She's going to tell me who helped her get into the labs even if I have to break her fingers one at a time to make her open up."

Even though he doesn't have the disease anymore, will he be all right?"

At least it doesn't have any of the characteristics of a tumor

Could this spot on Danny's brain have anything to do with the boy's psychic power? Were his latent psychic abilities brought to the surface as a direct result of the man-made virus with which he had been repeatedly infected? Crazy - but it didn't seem any more unlikely than that he had fallen victim to Project Pandora in the first place

Tina said, "Elliot, you'll have to carry Danny

There are a lot of people here who have some sense of social responsibility about this work

If I can make them think that Zachariah was the one who spilled the secrets to you, if I can protect my position here, maybe I'll be promoted and have more influence." He smiled

Not until she and Elliot figured out what effect that revelation would have on the boy's life.

We'll have to take you straight to McDonald's and pack you full of burgers and fries."

Therefore, I will devote what space I am given here to this novel itself and to the savage, brutal, cruel, maddening, insane, inane, nonsensical, stupid, bewildering, toxic, bloodcurdling, lip-chafing, toenail-curling experience of working with a major television network to adapt this novel, and three others, as part of a program that would have been called The Dean Koontz Theater or Dean Koontz Presents or possibly Here's Dean! or even Koontzapalooza

Although The Eyes of Darkness does not have the intensity, the humor, the depth of characterization, the complexity of theme, or the pace of later novels, readers have responded positively to it over the years, most likely because the device of a lost child - and the dedicated mother who will do anything to find out what happened to her little boy - strikes a primal chord in all of us.

They chose it as one of four of my novels to be developed as two-hour TV movies that would launch Popcorn, Sugar Babies, Dum Dums, and Dean or whatever the series would have been titled

I was so young and naive, I assumed "network-approved writers" meant that each of these writers would be among the finest in the TV business, on the planet, in the universe, the elite of the elite, the crS232; me de la crS232; me, superexcellent wordsmiths incapable of spinning any story that wasn't the top, the ower of Pisa, the Mona Lisa, the Louvre Museum, the Colosseum! Network-approved writers! I was in the lap of God, in the hands of ministering angels, and there could be no doubt whatsoever that we would have a hit with Help, My Feet Are Stuck to the Floor in Dean Koontz's Theater or whatever it would be called.

They might have been talented folks who, in the past, had produced works to rival those of Shakespeare and who, in the future, might produce thousands of pages of sheer genius

Your surgeon cuts off your left foot when it was your gangrenous right foot he should have amputated

I received a death threat by phone the night before the arbitration - I can't say for certain that it was from the writer; the voice was so deep that it might have been his mother - and the next morning the law firm handling the studio's case assured me that they had taken extra security measures for the meeting

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

I have room for just one example

The heating coils would probably have to maintain the road at about 38 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit to be sure that it remained free of snow and ice

Considering the fearsome number of meetings I had to sit through, my per-hour wage penciled out at less than I would have made if I had taken a part-time job at McDonald's.

I long ago wore out the three pairs of shoes that I was able to buy with my after-expenses and after-tax income from the project which, had it come to fruition, might have been titled I Think There's a Rat Chewing My Foot in Dean Koontz's Theater

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My brother, your father, will have all my money and my house after my death, and you will have it all when he dies

'And why didn't you come to me immediately? Your enemies have had almost two days to make a plan

Why did his Uncle Elias have to leave America? Because he had enemies

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I have liked telephones, and here in France we now have so many of them that you are never safe from interruption

'How have you killed Andre? Why?'

They'll have enough trouble believing that I did it alone..

'I assume you have a night watchman at your factory, Monsieur Delambre

'Though of course my brother could have entered the factory through the laboratory

I turned and was violently sick in front of a young policeman, whose face was as green as mine must have been.

'I have a strange feeling that this business with the flies holds the answer to the whole mystery, Monsieur Delambre,' he said.

'I have thought about that, Monsieur Delambre

It was lucky that he was staring at the wine glass and not at me, or something in my expression might have frightened him.

'Because I have again seen the fly that Mama was looking for.'

'I think that fly must have died long ago, Henri,' I said, getting up and walking to the door.

Helene, as I have said, had shown the commissaire that she knew how to operate the steam hammer

What, then, could have made him put his head under that hammer? There were only two possible explanations

but to what? The commissaire would have known what to do with such an advantage; I did not

'You have it then..

you have it with you! Give it to me!' she almost shouted, seizing my arm with both her hands.

'Or your friend the commissaire will have that fly first thing tomorrow morning.'

But if you don't, there'll be nothing more I can do, because Commissaire Charas will have the fly.'

I told the servants that I would have only a light supper and that I was not to be disturbed afterwards

He knew that the Air Ministry would have forbidden some of them as too dangerous, but he wanted to be certain about the results before reporting his discovery.

Andre claimed to have discovered a way of transmitting solid objects through space

'Are you saying that you have disintegrated that ashtray, then put it together again after pushing it through something?' I said.

He did not tell me first, knowing very well that I would never have agreed to such an experiment with our dog

I have had a serious accident

Knock again three times and I will know I have your promise

I must think and by then I will have typed out an explanation for you

You remember the ashtray experiment? I have had a similar accident

During a second experiment yesterday, a fly must have got into the disintegrator'

If it is not found, I shall have to find a way to put an end to all this.

So I would have to fight alone

I have thought of a way which is neither simple nor easy, but you can and will help me.

I have another idea

You remember the ashtray? Perhaps if you had put it through again, it might have come out with the letters turned back the right way.'

I have already thought of that

I have tried seven times already, but to please you I will try again

But the eyes! Where the eyes should have been, there were two brown shapes the size of saucers

I must have fainted because I found myself on the floor of the laboratory, staring at the closed door

Knock on the door when you are ready and I will explain what you have to do.

The night watchman must have heard the hammer and would be round at any moment

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She thinks, "No!" But she says, "Why do you want another hat, Bernardo? You have twenty!"

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It is difficult to know where to begin this story, but I have chosen a particular Wednesday at the vicarage

Does he think I have stolen Church money? But now I must get on with preparing my sermon

'The Protheroes have invited me to play tennis today

'Do you know,' said Griselda, 'I could have married a politician, a lord, a rich businessman, but instead I chose you? Didn't that surprise you?'

So I will have a love affair with the artist who is painting my picture

She also had the most unusual eyes I have ever seen - for they were almost golden, too

The menu was expensive, but Mary seemed to have enjoyed undercooking and overcooking everything

Why do you have it?'

'I think you have made the right decision,' I said.

'Well, he can't have stayed more than two minutes.'

'What reason could Lawrence have for killing Colonel Protheroe?'

I could have answered that question, but I did not wish to involve Anne Protheroe

'Lawrence must have put it back to 6.20 to give himself an alibi

'He may have forgotten about it.'

That is why it is so important to have proof

'Oh, dear! I have been very mistaken...'

'If you have not committed a murder, I cannot see the reason to pretend you have.'

'But if there was an argument,' I argued, 'the shot may have been fired in sudden anger, and Lawrence might have been very upset afterwards about what he had done.'

'She didn't say anything about it, and she would have done if she had heard it.'

'Well, I shall never forget his face when I met him outside my gate, or the way he said, "Oh, you'll see Protheroe all right!" That should have made me suspect what had just happened.' Haydock stared at me

'How did you manage to have a pistol with you?'

His eyes were looking at the note in my hand and I have never seen such pain in any human being's face.

'It must have been after six - quarter past - something like that.'

'I have never seen one.'

'He didn't have a pistol

I would have seen it if he had.'

Oh, could it have been...?' She stopped, pale with excitement.

It must have been Miss Cram because her skirt was so short.'

'It might have been in her handbag.'

And if a third person claims to have done this murder, I shall go mad.'

I can think of at least seven people who might be very happy to have Colonel Protheroe dead.'

And I've told Dr Stone that I must have regular times off

If I had, I would have gone in to see what had happened.'

I have asked Dr Haydock to bring Mrs Protheroe over here

'And yet, is that possible? Mrs Protheroe would only have just left the study

She would not have had time to reach the studio.'

'And Dr Haydock is certain that the murder could not have been committed at the time you say you did it

'How could I have thought for one minute that Anne did it? I met her in the studio that afternoon...' He paused.

I picked it up - and recognized it as my pistol! And I just thought Anne must have taken it, meaning to shoot herself because she was so unhappy

I thought that after we parted in the village, she must have come back here and - so I put the pistol in my pocket and left

'So, almost anyone might have taken it.'

'It was awful of me to think you could have killed...'

'Well, have you anything you can tell us about it?' Melchett asked.

When did he have it?'

'I have not.'

So, you will have to trust me,' said Mrs Lestrange, smiling.

'Then again, you will have to trust me, Inspector.'

I must have looked shocked, for he started to laugh

Mr Redding and Mrs Protheroe must have heard it, too.'

'Then it couldn't have been Dr Stone,' said Lawrence.

'But first, the vicar and I have a little job to do.' So we said goodbye to Miss Marple and walked back to the woods.

There's no other way he could have come.'

If the call had just been a joke, the fingerprints would not have been wiped off so carefully.'

'But, of course, she can't have telephoned Mrs Price Ridley and shot Colonel Protheroe at exactly the same time,' he continued

'Because a short time afterwards she came back, and she didn't have the suitcase with her.'

But later she had realized that if her husband had been sitting at the desk, she would not have seen him.

Several people must have heard, as he spoke very loudly.'

Well, of course, there must have been a shot, because the gentleman was found shot - but she had not heard it.

'No, I have no interest in such things

'That means that the murderer must have been inside this house - perhaps even had a drink with me.'

'I feel that someone might have seen or heard something, and I wondered if you could help me?'

I can imagine that Lawrence must have looked very attractive, with his blue eyes shining.

'I have never been in a house where they had a murder,' Mary said

"Well," I said, "There was no hat here when I cleaned the room on Thursday morning." And she said, "But I don't expect you would have seen it

He turned immediately to Griselda and as they talked, I heard her say, 'Do you have any ideas about the murder, Mr West?'

That's the job you have always wanted to do.'

You've got to be rich to marry a girl who expects to have everything she wants.'

After we had had coffee, Anne said, 'I want to have a little talk with the vicar.'

But I have to

Old Hall goes to me, but Lettice can choose enough furniture for a small house, and she will have enough money to buy one.'

'So, she must have dropped it before

'But this is the only place where Miss Cram could have hidden it

And of course, as you say, then Dr Stone would have no reason to murder Colonel Protheroe.'

'Yes, but Colonel Protheroe did say that he was going to have all his things valued for insurance

'So he can't have done it.'

'You have been up at Old Hall today, haven't you?'

I have heard something about the death of poor Colonel Protheroe.

I have learned something that I think may be important

I have heard something that is very important

'Miss Marple may have made a mistake.'

But I have heard that she has said she was at home all the time and that she didn't answer the door because - well, she didn't want to see me!'

'It must have been nearly six o'clock

But I have heard of something that I think they should know about.'

What you have to look for is a man with a bad cold.'

It must have been her sneeze Clara heard.'

'But the man might have been hiding in the bushes,' said Mrs Price Ridley

'Well, that is all I have to say.'

He had read about archaeology, but he kept making mistakes and Protheroe must have noticed

Well, I would have mine.

If I do not hear, I will come at the time I have said.

He wouldn't have needed to tell you that he couldn't wait any longer until after half-past six

Otherwise, she would not have gone down to the studio to meet Mr Redding

The second possibility is, of course, that he was sitting at the desk writing a note, but it must have been a different note from the one that was found

'But why would he have done that?'

It has been good to have this little talk.'

I have one idea that fits nearly everything

'I have been stupid - very, very stupid

It is a very unpleasant thing that I have to tell you

I have always liked Mrs Protheroe but I soon realized that she would do anything Lawrence Redding told her

'We know everything that Redding was doing up to 6.50 and Dr Haydock says Protheroe could not have been shot then.'

Either you or Mr Hawes must have taken it

So she must have come back on an earlier train.' She looked at me

So perhaps the sneeze that Mrs Price Ridley's servant heard might have been the shot? But anyway, Mrs Protheroe and Mr Redding went into the studio together - and then realized, of course, that I would not leave my garden until I saw them come out again!'

Because if they had really said goodbye to each other they would have been sad

'It was absolutely necessary for a shot to be heard because without it Mrs Protheroe might have continued to be a suspect

In fact, I think that Mr Hawes must have found that letter tonight

'You may think differently,' said Melchett, 'when you have heard what we now know.' And he quickly told him about Miss Marple's explanation of the crime

And if he hadn't, he would have been found guilty of murder

His first thought, I imagine, must have been to run away

And then she told me that I should have trusted her.

She continued, 'You see, Len, I have something new coming into my life

It's coming into your life, too! And you can't call me a dear child any more when we have a real child of our own

I have also decided that since now I'm going to be a real "wife and mother" I must look after the house as well

So I have bought two books: one on House Management and one on Mother Love.'

'You haven't bought a book on How to Treat a Husband, have you?' I asked, as I put my arms round her.

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Its air is much thinner than ours, its oceans have become smaller until they cover only a third of its surface, and from its far north and south the ice is steadily moving forwards

And before we criticize them for thinking in this way, we must remember how badly we have treated not only the animals of this planet, but also other people

I do not think I would have known anything about it myself if I had not met Ogilvy, the well-known astronomer

If I had looked up I would have seen the strangest thing that ever fell to Earth from space, but I did not

I think they understood that nothing could be done for the moment, and had gone away to have breakfast at Henderson's house

It that death had swung round a full circle, it would have killed me

My body seemed to have lost its strength

If, on that Friday night, you had drawn a circle at a distance of five kilometres from Horsell Common, I doubt if there would have been one human being outside it, unless it was a relation of Stent, whose emotions or habits were affected by the new arrivals

Many people had heard of the cylinder, of course, and talked about it, but it did not have as much effect as a political event.

I have already described the behaviour of the people to whom I spoke

'We have to try not to kill them,' he said, 'if it can possibly be avoided.'

I got back to lunch at about two, very tired because, as I have said, the day was extremely hot and dull

'New attempts have been made to signal, but without success,' was how the evening papers later described it

If I had not made a promise to the pub owner, she would, I think, have asked me to stay in Leatherhead that night

After the lightning had begun, it flashed again and again, as quickly as I have ever seen

I have no doubt that this was the third of the cylinders they had fired at us from Mars.

If I had really understood the meaning of all the things I had seen, I would have gone back to join my wife in Leatherhead immediately

Towards Maybury Bridge there were voices and the sound of feet, but I did not have the courage to shout or go to them

'We didn't have a chance.' he said

If I had been alone, I think I would have taken my chance and gone straight across country

If my foot had slipped, it would have been the end

I have a faknee-int memory of the foot of a Martian coming down within twenty metres of my head, going straight into the loose stones

'You have been asking for water for the last hour,' he said.

'Why are these things allowed? What have we done - what has Weybridge done? The morning service was over

'Things have changed!' I said, quietly

It ended with the words, 'Although they seem frightening, the Martians have not moved from the pit into which they have fallen, and don't seem able to do so.'

I have read, in another description of these events, that on Sunday morning 'all London was panicked by the news from Woking.' In fact, this is simply not true

Machine guns are completely useless against them, and field-guns have been put out of action

People in West Surrey are very worried and defenses have been built to slow the Martians' movement towards London.

'They come from Weybridge and Walton, and they said guns have been heard at Chertsey, heavy firing, and that soldiers told them to move out at once because the Martians are corning

They have poisoned our gunners, destroyed Richmond, Kingston and Wimbledon, and are moving slowly towards London, destroying everything on the way, It is impossible to stop them

Each of the Martians, standing in the great curve I have described, had used the tube he carried to fire a large cylinder over whatever hill, wood or other possible hiding-place for guns might be in front of him

You have to imagine what happened to the gunners towards Esher, waiting so tensely in the evening light, because none of them lived to tell the story

He would have had very little chance if the younger lady had not very bravely stopped the cart and returned to help him

If the Martians had only wanted destruction, they could have killed the whole population of London on Monday, as it moved out slowly through the neighboring countryside

It one had flown over London that morning, every road to the north or east would have seemed black with moving refugees, everyone a frightened and exhausted human being.

He would probably have stayed longer it the sound or guns had not begun at about that time in the south

If the ship had fired one shell, they would have sent it straight to the bottom with the Heat-Ray.

In the last two chapters I have moved away from my own adventures to tell of the experiences of my brother

We stood shocked by our danger, and if the Martian had been looking down we would have died immediately

We sat in the kitchen in the dark and had a meal of cold food, and just before midnight there was a blinding flash of green light followed by the loudest bang I have ever heard

People who have never seen these things can hardly understand how alive they looked.

Germs, which cause so much disease and pain on Earth, have either never appeared on Mars or they got rid of them a long time ago.

But no human being saw as much of them as I did and lived to tell the story, and I can say that I have seen four, five or six of them slowly performing the most difficult work without sound or any other signal

'I have been still too long,' he said, loud enough for the Martians to hear, 'and now I must tell the world

This place will be destroyed because of the bad things we have done!'

If I had known, I would have left him at Walton, but I had not been able to see ahead

Nobody saw me kill him, but I have described it here and the reader can make a judgement.

Certainly, unless they had been killed, she and my cousins would have run away.

'Where have you come from?' he said.

'I have come from Sheen,' I said

I have escaped.'

But not all of us can live like animals, and that's how we'll have to live

It was interesting that he, an ordinary soldier, seemed to have a much better understanding of the situation than I, a professional writer.

'What plans do you have?' I said.

'Well, we have to invent a life where people can live and have children, and be safe enough to bring the children up

We can't have any weak or silly ones

Life is real again, and the useless and bad ones have to die

We have to save our knowledge, and add to it

These germs of disease have killed people and animals since the beginning of time, but over these many years we have developed the ability to fight against them

By paying with a million lives, human beings have bought their right to live on Earth

I have learned since then that I was not the first discoverer of the Martian defeat -several wanderers like me had already known about it on the previous night

Already men, crying with joy, as I have heard, were getting onto trains to go to London

But I have no memory of all of this

They have told me since that I was singing a crazy song about 'The Last Man Left Alive! The Last Man Left Alive!' Although they were troubled with their own affairs, these people were very helpful to me

It seems to me that they have lost a great advantage in the failure of their first surprise

One astronomer has given excellent reasons for supposing that the Martians have actually landed on Venus

We have learned that we cannot think of this planet as a safe home for humans

Perhaps, across the great distances of space, the Martians have watched what happened to the ones that landed on Earth and learned their lesson - and have found a safer home on the planet Venus

I must admit that the trouble and danger of our time have left a continuing sense of doubt and fear in my mind

I go to London and see the busy crowds in Fleet Street and the Strand, and it comes to my mind that they are just the ghosts of the past, walking the streets that I have seen silent and empty, spirits in a dead city

And it is strangest of all to hold my wife's hand again, and to think that I have thought of her, and that she has thought of me, among the dead.

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'You see,' Holmes said to me, 'I needed a case, and now I have lost this one because we went for a walk in the park.'

Well, that man must have a very big problem because he left his pipe

'I beg your pardon,' said the man, 'I should have knocked, but I am very upset, and I need help.'

'Anyway, my friend and I have heard many strange secrets in this room, and we have had the fortune to help many people

'I have been married for three years, and my wife and I were very happy until last Monday

'Please let me have the facts, Mr Munro,' said Holmes, with some impatience.

I have seen his death certificate

'I am a hop merchant, and I, too, have a good income

It may have nothing to do with what happened afterwards, but I thought that I should mention it.