The counsellor had had a stopwatch, and Paul Sheldons dozing mind saw it with brilliant clarity, although he had last held its honest silver weight in his hand more than thirty years ago. It looks good on paper, and there are people who build those things whod tell you it was easy as pie - and even keep a straight face while they said it - but the odds are always against. On either side of the doorway, about eight inches up from the floor, was a black mark - they had been left, he understood at once, by the hubs of the wheelchair when he forced it through. "She tipped the blade of the axe flat, the tendons standing out in her strong right wrist, and he could see the wink of the amethyst ring she still wore on the pinkie finger of that hand.The counsellor had had a stopwatch, and Paul Sheldons dozing mind saw it with brilliant clarity, although he had last held its honest silver weight in his hand more than thirty years ago. It looks good on paper, and there are people who build those things whod tell you it was easy as pie - and even keep a straight face while they said it - but the odds are always against. On either side of the doorway, about eight inches up from the floor, was a black mark - they had been left, he understood at once, by the hubs of the wheelchair when he forced it through. "She tipped the blade of the axe flat, the tendons standing out in her strong right wrist, and he could see the wink of the amethyst ring she still wore on the pinkie finger of that hand.
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