She'd, have to restock soon, she thought. She went to the door, put her hand on the knob, glanced critically at the two large wooden bowls-one stocked with small packets of M&Ms, the other with candied apples-on a table to the right of the doorway. 'And six witches, one werewolf, two vampires-' She stopped someone had knocked at the door. John sighed Another gem down the toilet, he thought. He knew well enough what Gremlins were he'd taken their five-year-old granddaughter, Amy, to see the movie. She continued her litany of trick-or-treaters: 'Three skeletons, one gremlin-' She kept track of birthday cards, sunny days, gray squirrels (there were thirty-one of them, she insisted, in the twin maple trees in front of the house), salesmen, robins anything that could repeat itself and therefore could be kept track of, she kept track of with a vengeance. 'Eight Frankensteins, two ghosts,' she went on she also kept track of costumes-keeping track of things was an obsession with her. The previous Halloween there had been forty-seven of them, five more than the year before, but three less than the year before that. Vera-a chunky forty-five-kept track of trick-ortreaters. 'How many is that, Vera?' John asked from his La-Z-Boy. Goode's last known address, according to people in the area, was the Peacock Hotel, on Gadow Street. We do not at this point suspect foul play.' Chief Lucas could not disclose the cause of death, saying only, 'It is under investigation. According to Buffalo's 10th Precinct Captain, Jack Lucas, Goode had apparently been dead for several days.

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