`` man , we know what you were after , '' i said , trying to make it sound like the joke that frank had not intended it to be . put it back in your trunk , like a good boy . he threw himself against the door , trying to force it open and realized the sound down the corridor had stopped , `` a damned distraction , '' he muttered , bashing at the door some more . drums rumbled from farther up the pass . meanwhile , the girls had come home from playing with some friend of theirs . 