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TICK, TOCK
UD KERR UN wrapped the box carefully wlth paper cut from a grocer's brown sack and tied it with or dinary white string. He
took a stencil from the top of the work
By DONALD WANDREI
A time bomb passes from hand to hand-w ith sheer horrorat its explosive end
Tick, tock. .
Ju d put the package into a cardboa rd box on a layer of old newspapers. He added a red sweater to the package, and rolled the two it ems with th e new spa - pers, and tucked the bundle under one arm.
Then he pulled his gloves off and tossed them aside.
bench, laid it across
the lower right sur-
fa ce of the package,
and briskly rubbed
a black wax crayon
across the stencil.
Wh en he moved the
stencil, the pack-
age had an addre ss in bold, block letters : Leslie Gramm, 307 Front St.
H e held the package tight against his ear. It said, in a whisper so faint that he was not absolutely certain he had heard it:
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That was the way to do it. Even if everything went wrong, the cops wouldn't find finger- prints, clues, or handwriting.
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He rubbed the back of a hand
across the stubble on his chin_as he i opened the door . Sun light of late
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