"For a moment there was nothing to see. Only for a moment. Then two—or
was it three?—long, blackish, extremely thin arms came out from the
black car and fumbled with the glass in the window of the sedan. The
glass was forced down. The arms entered the sedan."
"From the sedan there came a wild burst of shrieking. It was like the flopping, horrified squawks of a chicken at the chopping block. The shrieks were still going on when the very thin arms came out with a—The light hid nothing. The three very thin arms came out with a plucked-off human arm."
"They threw it into the interior of the black car. The three arms invaded the sedan once more."
"There was a splintering crash, the sound of lath and plaster breaking. Freeman looked up from the unsigned agreement to see the last of his entrepreneurs—the last, the indubitable last—being borne off in the long black arms of Voom."
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