“You seem awfully listless.”

“Have you listened to the radio today? Seen this afternoon’s newspaper?”

“No. Why?”

Harry waved vaguely toward the table beyond the television set. There was a newspaper on it. “You’d better have a look.”

Paul walked toward it. Behind him he heard the old man’s voice: “We both thought it was ended. We didn’t realize you’d started something that couldn’t be stopped.”

The headline slammed him in the eyes. He glanced at the columns beneath it. Phrases caught his eye:…three separate incidents in the past forty-eight hours….The same .32 caliber pistol appears to have been used in all three shootings….Captain Victor Mastro was quoted as saying….victims all had criminal records….

He stared in unbelief at the headline:

ANOTHER VIGILANTE?