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Ten Day
’
s Wonder
Ellery Queen
PART ONE
NINE DAYS’ WONDER
This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
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Heywood, Proverbes
The First Day
IN THE BEGINNING it was without form, a darkness that kept shifting like dancers. There was music beyond, tiny, cheerful, baffling, and then it would be vast, rushing on you and, as it rushed, losing its music in sounds so big you flowed through the spaces like a gnat in an air stream, and then it was past and dwindling and tiny music again and there was the darkness shifting again.
Everything swayed. He felt seasick.
That might be a sea sky up there over the Atlantic night with a shadow like a wash cloud and trembly places where stars were. And the music could be singing in the fo’c’sle or the shift of black water. He knew it was real, because when he closed his eyes the cloud and the stars blinked out, although the sway remained and so did the music. There was also the smell of fish and something with a complicated taste, like sour honey.
It was interesting because everything was a problem and having sights and sounds and smells and tastes to worry over gave him a feeling of new importance, as if before he had been nothing. It was like being born. It was like being born in a ship. You lay in the ship and the ship rocked and you rocked with it in the rocking night, looking up at the ceiling of the sky.
You could rock here forever in this pleasant timelessness if only things remained the same, but they did not. The sky was closing in and the stars were coming down and this was another puzzle, because instead of growing as they neared they shrank. Even the quality of the rocking changed: it had muscles in it now and suddenly he thought, Maybe it’s not the ship that’s rocking, but me.
He opened his eyes.
He was seated on something hard that gave. His knees were pressing against his chin. His hands were locked around his shins and he was rocking back and forth.
Somebody said, “It isn’t a ship at all,” and he was surprised because the voice was familiar and for the life of him he couldn’t remember whose it was.
He looked around rather sharply.
Nobody was in the room.
Room.
It was a room.
The discovery was like a splash of seawater.
He unclasped his hands and put them down flat against something warm and grainy yet slithery to the touch. He did not like it and he raised his hands to his face. This time his palms were offended as if by mohair and he thought, I’m in a room and I need a shave but what’s a shave? Then he rem ............

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