He did not touch Wednesday. discount uggs for women He did not say anything.
     Later, he wondered if he could have changed things, if that gesture would have done any good, if it could have averted any of the harm that was to come. He told himself it wouldn't. He knew it wouldn't. But still, afterward, he wished that, just for a moment on that slow flight home, he had touched Wednesday's hand.
     The brief winter daylight was already fading when Wednesday dropped Shadow outside his apartment. The freezing temperature when Shadow uggs discount opened the car door felt even more science fictional when compared to Las Vegas.
     "Don't get into any trouble," said Wednesday. "Keep your head below the parapet. Make no waves."
     "All at the same time?"
     "Don't get smart with me, m'boy. You can keep out of sight in Lakeside. I pulled in a big favor to keep you here, safe and sound. If you were in a city they'd get your scent in minutes."
     "I'll stay put and keep out discount uggs for women of trouble." Shadow meant it as he said it. He'd had a lifetime of trouble and he was ready to let it go forever. "When are you coming back?" he asked.
     "Soon," said Wednesday, and he gunned the Lincoln's engine, slid up the window, and drove off into the frigid night.
     Chapter 11
     Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
     -Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack.
     Three cold days passed. The thermometer never made it up to the ugg boots discount outlet zero mark, not even at midday. Shadow wondered how people had survived this weather in the days before electricity, before thermal face masks and lightweight thermal underwear, before easy travel.
     He was down at the video, tanning, bait and tackle store, being shown Hinzelmann's hand-tied trout flies. They were more interesting than he had expected: colorful fakes of life, made of feather and thread, each with a hook hidden inside it.
     He asked Hinzelmann.
     "For real?" asked Hinzelmann.
     "For real," ugg boots clearance sale said Shadow.
     "Well," said the older man. "Sometimes they didn't survive it, and they died. Leaky chimneys and badly ventilated stoves and ranges killed as many people as the cold. But those days were hard-they'd spend the summer and the fall laying up the food and the firewood for the winter. The worst thing of all was the madness. I heard on the radio, they were saying how it has to do with the sunlight, how there discount uggs for women isn't enough of it in the winter. My daddy, he said folk just went stir crazy-winter madness they called it. Lakeside always had it easy, but some of the other towns around here, they had it hard. There was a saying still had currency when I was a kid, that if the serving girl hadn't tried to kill you by February she hadn't any backbone.