Edmund Blair Leighton The End of The Song painting

Edmund Blair Leighton The End of The Song paintingJohn Singleton Copley Watson and the Shark paintingJohn Singleton Copley The Tribute Money painting
Two lengths of red tinsel. Only five sets of bells. The missing set, in the middle of the right-hand garland of tinsel, was the one that had been given to him as he lay dying.[380] A cold tremble, almost a pressure, moved slowly down the center with this man, seen before only in that dream, made the death in the ambulance seem real even though he still breathed, still lived.The shock of recognition was not mutual. The paramedic regarded Ethan with no greater interest than he might have shown toward any stranger.Hazard flashed his department ID. “What’s your name, sir?”“Cameron Sheen.”“Mr. Sheen, we need to know what calls this particular ambulance answered yesterday afternoon.”“What time exactly?” the paramedic asked.Hazard looked at Ethan, and Ethan found his voice. “Between five and six o’clock.”of his back, as if the fleshless tip of a skeletal finger were tracing his spine from cervical vertebrae to coccyx.Hazard said, “One set of bells is missing, but between us we have two.”“Maybe not. Maybe we have the same set.”“What do you mean?”Behind them, a man said, “May I help you?”Turning, Ethan saw the paramedic who had attended to him in the racing ambulance less than twenty-four hours ago.The discovery of the bells in his hand outside Forever Roses had already been one piece of dark magic too many. Now, to come face to face