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Jaqueline laughed with her mouth full; Outside. Now and then a voice, but mostly the murmur was quiet now. The houses on Hart Street were going to get there rest and begin to breath, and the beach city pains were stretching the sand. The door was knocked at lightly. Jiven Joe stood up from where he had seated himself on the floor beneath Animal and Jaqueline seated on the bed, and went to the door opening it. In walked older Marie and a young man dressed in black leather clothes and shoes, with black hair combed in bangs, and a white angular face, with dark knowledgeable eyes. Tonight the air smelled clear to Joe. He sniffed. The studio images; the runaway; they were forgotten. Marie went and sat. A cushion had let her clear a way to the non-center of attraction. The man's lea- ther coat looked like a well worked hand as he took it off. It was cracked and weather beaten, but his face was smooth. Underneath he had on a leather sh- irt. It was black too, so it was definate to Joe, that this man were a costume. Animal was talking to Jaugeline about money, while she sat munching cheese and sipping wine, with a lefty and mischievious slant in her eyes, and stretch