She is able to smell its breath until she whispers Lover and closes her eyes. She collapses as she walk back in her bed as werewolf puts its paw up on the bed, one on either side of her. She realizes too late that it is the same werewolf that killed Arnie Westrum last month. She throws the window up and takes a step backward until the wolf leaps inside. She deceives herself that it is a man that is wickedly handsome. She walks toward the window thinking love has come until she put her finger on the sash of the window notices that it is not a man. She notices a dark shape that is clearly masculine blocking the moonlight in the window. Her thoughts are interrupted until she hears a scratching at the window. She also thinks about the people laugh at her especially the small boys. It is revealed that she sent herself twenty Valentines from famous celebrities which she has done every year. Valentine's Day full moon, Stella Randolph thinks about love lying in her narrow bed. He swings the pick at werewolf but eventually he fails and is torn apart. After noticing that his visitor is a big wolf, he picks up a pick. When he notices the door been crack he tries to find something to support the part of the door. He draws back after whatever is outside hits the door heavily. Before he can decide, he hears that the whining rises to a snarl.

He infers to be dog that wants to come in and thinks about what to decide about his visitor. At first, he thinks he hears the wind until he realizes that the door is been scratch. In a snow storm nine miles out of Tarker's Mill, Maine, Arnie Westrum, the flagman on the GS & WM Railroad, is caught in a shack.

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