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and created the kind of quietness
that descends while you are awaiting visitors.
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After two days off Grace had been put back
to work, but the quietness remained.
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Indeed it intensified until on the fifth day
it swelled into a strange mood
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that, all of a sudden, brought all the citizens
to the street to listen.
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They asked each other
if the phone was really still down,
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or if they'd heard about Ben having had to turn
his truck around on his way to Georgetown
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that very morning on account
of a large tree blocking the road.
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They were not worried.
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"worried" was not the right word,
and then Tom spotted the cars.
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Tom has binoculars.
But you can see 'em with the naked eyes.
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There must be at least eight!
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I thought the road was blocked.
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They must have come through
before the tree came down.
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June's bed! The sheets need changing.
I'll be there in a minute.
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Hello, June.
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[Narrator] Grace had just started on the bed,
which June had soiled yet again,
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when an irritating feeling of wasting her time
forced itself upon her.
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And it was without thinking
she then said the words:
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Nobody gonna sleep here.
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[Narrator] She didn't say them out loud,
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but even so she was startled by the uttrance
that had urged itself upon her.
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Where had these ominous words come from?
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Darkness was falling as Grace made
her way home from work that evening.
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The people on the square overlooking the valley
had finally given up hope of seeing anything else