what love was left from the last counter girl spilled over him and it was ecstasy and he remembered this feeling from the last time or the time before or the time before and it was the love draining away and he knew that he must complete his work and set the teacher girl in place because even as the love from the last counter girl faded and even though the black cloud loomed over stansbury , the bridge was without love and the town was without love and at this moment it was still possible that somehow the strange one could destroy everything .