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looking man although he is absolutely quiet and has taken a single swift step in profile at the top of the stairs. Well then all the men are going up there Bondad and my father and seven-year-old we and no one is up there but the party is ruined and we kids are saying Claude ghost Claude ghost in the back of the Falcon as we drive back along Duke of Gloucester Street up above the old inn then turn up the hill toward Charles Street where in the next 1o years my relatives will disappear and disappear and disappear and disappear and disappear without anyone showing up even to light a cigarette no black man darting across a passageway or the soft swish of a dress and then the rest above the dress and then the white face and cold eyes I have imagined so many times the quick glance that will not be unkind but will tell rne certainly what is going to happen to me with an iceless courtesy I will never understand unless a stranger tells me something I can work with my recent days finding clothes on the beach Iost sunglasses a single boot seaweed Janie and a crazy persons way of thinking deeded right of way to lake means you must not actually be on the lake face of the ghost appearing not actually there did you see it you must never see it 42