Shadow wondered which of the ugg boots cheap sale people who had come to northern Wisconsin 150 years ago, a woodcutter, perhaps, or a mapmaker, had crossed the Atlantic with Hinzelmann living in his head.
     And then the bloody child was gone, and the blood, and there was only an old man with a fluff of white hair and a goblin smile, his sweater-sleeves still soaked from putting Shadow into the bath that had saved his life.
     "Hinzelmann?" the voice came from the doorway of the den.
     Hinzelmann turned. Shadow turned too.
     "I came over to tell you," said ugg boots on sale Chad Mulligan, and his voice was strained, "that the klunker went through the ice. I saw it had gone down when I drove over that way, and thought I'd come over and let you know, in case you'd missed it."
     He was holding his gun. It was pointed at the floor.
     "Hey, Chad," said Shadow.
     "Hey, pal," said Chad Mulligan. "They sent me a note said you'd died in custody. Heart attack."
     "How about that?" said Shadow. "Seems like I'm dying all over the place."
     "He uggs discount came down here, Chad," said Hinzelmann. "He threatened me."
     "No," said Chad Mulligan. "He didn't. I've been here for the last ten minutes, Hinzelmann. I heard everything you said. About my old man. About the lake." He walked farther into the den. He did not raise the gun. "Jesus, Hinzelmann. You can't drive through this town without seeing that goddamned lake. It's at the center of everything. So what the hell am I supposed to do?"
     "You got to arrest him. He said cheap uggs online he was going to kill me," said Hinzelmann, a scared old man in a dusty den. "Chad, I'm pleased you're here."
     "No," said Chad Mulligan. "You're not."
     Hinzelmann sighed. He bent down, as if resigned, and he pulled the poker out from the fire. The tip of it was burning bright orange.
     "Put that down, Hinzelmann. Just put it down slowly, keep your hands in the air where I can see them, and turn and face the wall."
     There was an expression of pure fear ugg boots discount outlet on the old man's face, and Shadow would have felt sorry for him, but he remembered the frozen tears on the cheeks of Alison McGovern. Hinzelmann did not move. He did not put down the poker. He did not turn to the wall. Shadow was about to reach for Hinzelmann, to try to take the poker away from him, when the old man threw the burning poker at Mulligan.