TOR SEIDLER TERPIN ILLUSTRATIONS BY Peter McCarty LAURA GERINGER BOOKS An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
For John Bass
Excuse me Your Honor sir but North Haven is the next stop bout twenty five minutes Awakening Terpin Taft blinked up at a face with a long white beard For an instant this gave him a start for once before in his life many years ago he had awakened to see a face with just such a flowing white beard But he realized it was the conductor North Haven is next Your Honor the conductor repeated touching the brim of his cap Or North Tafton as I hear they're changing it to Terpin Taft thanked him As the old man bowed and shuffled off down the train car Terpin turned from the ogling eyes of the other passengers and
