Macon tried again. ‘Edward’s outside the pantry. My brother’s inside, and says he’s going to call the police to come shoot Edward so I thought if you could go over and---‘
‘I’ll go right away, and take Edward to the Meow-Bow.’
‘Oh, wonderful. And there’s something else . . .I’m having this kind of . . . See, I’m on top of this very tall building and I don’t know what it is but something had scared the hell out of me.’