the kit mistaken for an example to them all
He carries Visine AC, mint-flavored floss, and a traveller’s toothbrush in a pocket of his Dunlop gear bag. Ted Schacht, big into oral hygiene, regards Hal’s bag’s floss and brush as an example to them all.
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The ache the roster flags: the eyedrops-and-floss-and-toothbrush kit is a cover-up apparatus — evidence-removal for a secret high — and Schacht, earnest about dental care, reads it as exemplary hygiene and holds Hal up as a model. The concealment tools pass for virtue; the person closest to admiring them has the diagnosis exactly backward.