"...their life patterns. Quick!" Hmmm - not from a Mars story! Right?

An Illinois story.

Ok. Let me see what I can turn up...

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The Trunk Lady?

Never heard of it.
I have read The Elephant Man, though...

"I have read The Elephant Man, though..."
(~ You're in rare form. I figured as much!!)

yet...Braling II, I figured you had an inside shot at this one!
RE: Location: Box in Braling I's cellar

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"Follow them," whispered Mr Fields. "Study their life patterns. Quick!"

"Men shouted in the first faint gleam of dawn."

I'm digging...

It rings a bell somehow.

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:
"Follow them," whispered Mr Fields. "Study their life patterns. Quick!"

"Men shouted in the first faint gleam of dawn."

"Sleeping cars drew up, dazed faces blinked out at the children."

Might it share a setting with DW, in some ways?

Perhaps, although it's not in that volume.

OK,right. Is it an older s.s., say pre-mid '50's? (I may do some scanning, you see!)

First published in 1953.

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:
"Follow them," whispered Mr Fields. "Study their life patterns. Quick!"

"Men shouted in the first faint gleam of dawn."

"Sleeping cars drew up, dazed faces blinked out at the children."

"Horses clattered like a great fall of stones on the pavement."

Not in Stories of RB! I am going to the Red Book tonight!!

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Not in Stories of RB! I am going to the Red Book tonight!!

I will confess it is in the Red Book. It is also in a book published during the sixties.