Mort - inherit

'She remembered about the bathroom,' he muttered. 'And she knows about things she couldn't have seen. She couldn't have been told. She's got his memory. She inherited.'

SQUEAK, said the Death of Rats. He tended to sit by the fire at nights.

'Last time he went off, people stopped dyin',' said Albert. 'But they ain't stopped dyin' this time. And the horse went to her. She's fillin' the hole.'

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Soul Music p56