"Ron Goulart - Please Stand By" - читать интересную книгу автора (Goulart Ron)

"Do you know a guy named Dan Padgett?"

"No."

"How about Ernie Carawan?"

"Eando? Yeah."

"On Halloween you met Dan Padgett and a girl named Anne Clemens at the party the Carawans gave."

"That's a good act. Can you tell me what it says on the slip of paper in my pocket?"

"Do you remember talking to Dan? Could you have put some kind of spell on him?"

Waller slid forward off the stool. "That guy. I'll be damned. I did do it then."

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"Do what?"

"I was whacked out of my mind. Juiced out of my skull, you know. I got this flash. Some guy was in
trouble. This Padgett it was. I didn't think I'd really done anything. Did I?"

"He turns into an elephant on national holidays."

Waller looked at his feet. Then laughed. "He does. That's great. Why'd I do that do you suppose?"

"Tell me."

Waller stopped laughing. "I get these flashes all the time. It bugs my wife. She doesn't know who to sleep
with. I might get a flash about it. Wait now." He picked up a hammer from his workbench and tapped the
palm of his hand. "That girl. The blonde girl. What's her name?"

"Anne Clemens."

"There's something. Trouble. Has it happened yet?"

"What's supposed to happen?"

"Ouch," said Waller. He'd brought the hammer down hard enough to start a bruise. "I can't remember.
But I know I put a spell on your friend so he could save her when the time came."

Max lit a cigarette. "It would be simpler just to tell me what sort of trouble is coming."

Waller reached out behind him to set the hammer down. He missed the bench and the hammer smashed
through the top of a shoe box. "Look, Kearny. I'm not a professional wizard. It's like in baseball.
Sometimes a guy's just a natural. That's the way I am. A natural. I'm sorry, buddy. I can't tell you