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"Are you stopping?" Nina asked.

"No, I was just thinking." Henry looked at the speedometer and found that he had slowed to thirty.

"Well, I know what my pop will do to me," she said. "He has an old razor strap. He hasn't used it on me in years. But he will now. When he finds out we were at our place instead of the movies you know what he'll think. And he'll beat me. He'll run me away from home." Her right hand crept back over the narrow ridge of her left shoulder, as if she could feel the bite of the strap.

Suddenly they were coming up on the Oasis and Henry saw that there was a light inside. He pulled up to the door and got out. Then he saw that the place was empty. It was closed, and it was locked. A light burned in the barred liquor storeroom, to discourage thieves.

Henry didn't get back into the car immediately. The desire for haste was gone. He felt, rather, as if he had been given a reprieve. He said, "I guess we can go on to the Innlet, and use the phone there." The Innlet was an expensive motel, a bit further up the coast.