Time’s ticking.
It’s time to make a decision…
He pored o’er the pages a million times, but the missing clue still wouldn’t appear.
He pored o’er the pages a billion times, but still couldn’t decide.
Then he looked up @ the clock with astonishment, & looked back down to see the long gray beard he’d grown. The picture o’ the pack o’ playing cards was burnt into his mind, as well as the price, “$5.99.”
But in his mind, he calculated that his own mind had raised the price a billion times higher…