I didn't think we wrestled as a team very well. But then, Polk was much better than I thought coming into the match.

I never thought I'd ever see this day.

I never thought I would see this day. But it's here now and I feel pretty good about it.

We knew their size would give us trouble, but we thought our athletes would be able to get some rebounds, and we didn't get it done. At the end of the game, too, we had a chance to get a rebound twice and we didn't get it. Rebounding cost us this game.

That done, I sank into an uneasy sleep wherein I dreamed of an assembly line of pale, bloodless girls walking down an endless dark street and moaning softly for help. Somewhere, toward the edge of my inner vision, a shadowy figure pursued them with long, beckoning arms.

Goddamn booze!

Somewhere in the midst of this ghoulish girl parade Cairncross materialized and hung a garland of garlic around my neck, glaring at me with his good eye and intoning, 'Go and sin no more.'
Vincenzo appeared at Cairncross' side and together they laughed insanely, then vanished in a puff of sulphurous smoke.

I made several high-minded resolutions, muttered half-heard but sincere-sounding prayers to all the recently deposed saints, thrashed and rolled clean off the bed.

I might just as well have stayed up.

This 'vampire' stuff is to stay right in this room. Until we have the assailant in custody we say nothing about these girls being drained of blood. No more rumors. No reports in the papers," he added, looking directly at me and ignoring my colleague from the opposition press. "The official opinion at this time is that the cause of death is 'undetermined and under investigation'. We don't want to start a panic. It's bad for police operations. It's bad for the people. And it's had for business.