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Levi merely winked both eyes and lowered his head to his
front paws. Eddie had suffered at human hands; the other cats knew
it and discounted his psychotic outbursts. They nevertheless gave him
a wide berth: his fits of violence easily escalated from verbal abuse to
mad snarling attacks upon the flanks of innocent bystanders.
Just then Levi Katz, possessor of an unimpaired sense of smell,
detected a wandering molecule of undeniably attractive odor. Aha! he
thought: that explains both Billy Bob’s abrupt departure and his lame
excuse. Levi silently leapt down from the fence rail and carefully
made his way past Eddie.