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Jake drives to Dallas and arranges to buy two lamps equipped with listening devices. Jake wants to be able to watch the Oswalds from a distance so as not to disturb the harmony of the present or the future. He drives to a rental house on Mercedes Street in Fort Worth where Lee Harvey will later live and speaks to the woman who currently lives there. He asks that she inform him when she decides to move out.

Jake and Sadie chaperon the Sadie Hawkins dance at the high school. The deejay plays “In the Mood,” and the students encourage Jake and Sadie to dance. They dance the lindy just like Richie and Beverley did back in Derry. When Jake drives Sadie home, they kiss in his car. Sadie invites Jake to her home for dinner the following day.

Jake arrives at Sadie’s house and they immediately go into the bedroom. Over a picnic dinner, she tells him about her husband, Johnny Clayton. They attended the same college and later got jobs at the same high school. Her parents loved him. She mentions a broom that came between her and her husband in bed but refuses to give specifics.