title: Lie of the Needle (A Deadly Notions Mystery)
author:  Cate Price 
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zlib_text: Wizard At Large
   Terry Brooks
   At that word the young man let his glass slip through his fingers, and looked upon Keawe like a
  ghost.
   "The price," says he; "the price! You do not know the price?"
   "It is for that I am asking you," returned Keawe. "But why are you so much concerned? Is there
  something wrong about the price?"
   "It has dropped a great deal in value since your time, Mr. Keawe," said the young man,
  stammering.
   "Well, well, I shall have the less to pay for it," says Keawe. "How much did it cost you?"
   The young man was white as a sheet. "Two cents," said he.
   "What?" cried Keawe, "two cents? Why, then, you can only sell it for one. And he who buys it —
  " The words died upon Keawe's tongue; he who bought it could never sell it again, the bottle and
  the bottle imp must abide with him until he died, and when he died must carry him to the red end
  of hell.
   Robert Louis Stevenson,The Bottle Imp
   Sneeze
   Ben Holiday sighed wearily and wished he were somewhere else besides where 