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SKULL was awakened by the blinking of a wall-lamp into his eyes. On and off, insistently, it warned him soundlessly of danger above. He sprang from the cot, glanced at his alarm clock, and went up the back stairs three steps at a time.
Already, before he entered his office, he heard the muffled shrieks of a woman in unbearable pain. He thought with split-second agony of Carol and Miriam.