But Mark didn't come home. Tequila came home and wondered where Mark was, 
but didn't seem to mind that he wasn't there. Finally Harv came back, late that 
night, after Nell had gone to bed, and hid something under his mattress. The 
next day Nell looked: It was a pair of heavy sticks, each about a foot long, 
joined in the middle by a short chain, and the whole thing was smeared with 
reddish-brown stuff that had gone sticky and crusty.