Shadow did not know what ugg discount to say. He said, "So where are you calling from?"
     "None of your goddamn business."
     "Are you drunk?"
     "Not yet. I just keep thinking about Thor. You never knew him. Big guy, like you. Good-hearted. Not bright, but he'd give you the goddamned shirt off his back if you asked him. And he killed himself. He put a gun in his mouth and blew his head off in Philadelphia in 1932. What kind of a way is that for a god to ugg boots on sale die?"
     "I'm sorry."
     "You don't give two fucking cents, son. He was a whole lot like you. Big and dumb." Wednesday stopped talking. He coughed.
     "What's wrong?" said Shadow, for the second time.
     "They got in touch."
     "Who did?"
     "The opposition."
     "And?"
     "They want to discuss a truce. Peace talks. Live and let fucking live."
     "So what happens now?"
     "Now I go and drink bad coffee with the modern assholes in a Kansas City Masonic Hall."
     "Okay. You going to pick me up, or shall ugg boots for women I meet you somewhere?"
     "You stay there and you keep your head down. Don't get into any trouble. You hear me?"
     "But-"
     There was a click, and the line went dead and stayed dead. There was no dial tone, but then, there never had been.
     Nothing but time to kill. The conversation with Wednesday had left Shadow with a sense of disquiet. He got up, intending to go for a walk, but already the light was fading, and discount uggs for women he sat back down again.
     Shadow picked up the Minutes of the Lakeside City Council 1872-1884 and turned the pages, his eyes scanning the tiny print, not actually reading it, occasionally stopping to scan something that caught his eye.
     In July 1874, Shadow learned, the city council was concerned about the number of itinerant foreign loggers arriving in the town. An opera house was to be built on the corner of Third Street and Broadway. It discount uggs for women was to be expected that the nuisances attendant to the damming of the Mill-Creek would abate once the mill-pond had become a lake. The council authorized the payment of seventy dollars to Mr. Samuel Samuels, and of eighty-five dollars to Mr. Heikki Salminen, in compensation for their land and for the expenses incurred in moving their domiciles out of the area to be flooded.