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[Michael Bailey]

Bekah  wrote:
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>
> ********
> Doc's fire bell telephone ring wakes him up .  He got the fire alarm system
> from a kid who had taken it from a school building:
>
>

morally dubious.  at least Doc is sometimes sorry he thought that was
a good idea (like
every time it rings...)  later in the book he acknowledges expecting
the public school system
to have delivered something to Denis;

hard enough for public institutions to have to compete for funds
with law enforcement and armed incursions without also being stolen from
...hopefully, though, the staff at the school
has applied for and received funds for a new improved fire alarm.