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It is some time between midnight and dawn and the night is moonless. The mouse roams freely in the house while the dark man and dog are asleep. The mouse has found the dog's food bowl and the bits of dry food on the floor around it. It nibbles for a while, then catches the scent of peanut butter. The mouse follows its nose to the peanut butter in the kitchen. The mouse finds it easily. It is on a small piece of wood on the floor between a refrigerator and a hot water heater that stands like a sentry in a kitchen corner. a loud "SNAP!" awakens the dark man. "Henry? he calls: you okay, boy?" Henry doesn't respond. He is sound asleep on his small stack of folded blankets on the floor of the bedroom where the dark man never sleeps. "Ah." Says the dark man to himself. "It's the trap. I got another mouse." The dark man puts his head back down on the pillow and as he goes back to sleep he wonders if killing mice will keep him out of heaven.