Dark Tower 02 - The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

Author:Stephen King [King, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-11-30T01:53:12+00:00

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Roland watched Eddie carefully, and although he could have killed him six times

over at almost any time he wanted, he had elected to remain still and silent and

let Eddie work the situation out for himself. Eddie was a lot of things, and a

lot of them were not nice (as a fellow who had consciously let a child drop to

his death, the gunslinger knew the difference between nice and not quite well),

but one thing Eddie wasn't was stupid.

He was a smart kid.

He would figure it out.

So he did.

He looked back at Roland, smiled without showing his teeth, twirled the

gunslinger's revolver once on his finger, clumsily, burlesquing a show-shooter's

fancy coda, and then he held it out to Roland, butt first.

"This thing might as well be a piece of shit for all the good it can do me,

isn't that right?"

You can talk bright when you want to, Roland thought. Why do you so often choose

to talk stupid, Eddie? Is it because you think that's the way they talked in the

place where your brother went with his guns?

"Isn't that right?" Eddie repeated.

Roland nodded.

"If I had plugged you, what would have happened to that door?"

"I don't know. I suppose the only way to find out would be to try it and see."

"Well, what do you think would happen?"

"I think it would disappear."

Eddie nodded. That was what he thought, too. Poof! Gone like magic! Now ya see

it, my friends, now ya don't. It was really no different than what would happen

if the projectionist in a movie-theater were to draw a six-shooter and plug the

projector, was it?

If you shot the projector, the movie stopped.

Eddie didn't want the picture to stop.

Eddie wanted his money's worth.

"You can go through by yourself," Eddie said slowly.

"Yes."

"Sort of."

"Yes."

"You wind up in her head. Like you wound up in mine.''

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