That was why Bert Skirvel had done another freakish thing in picking Mordant's, of all places, for his mob to use as a rendezvous.

"It's a freakish thing to think about."

It was one of those freakish things.

A freakish, suicidal thing, that act of Varney's that foiled The Shadow's work in his behalf.

"I think it's kind of a freakish thing, how often and how big he does it," said Mike Lowell, the third baseman.

That is the most freakish thing that's ever happened to me.

"It's kind of a freakish thing."

And put the poor freakish thing back in the sea, for goodness' sake.

But now, and for a few minutes every day, he remembered the freakish thing that he was with an awful clarity.

"It's just one of those freakish things," she mused when told she had won.