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He still looked ashamed, but it was shame of a different sort. Now he looked as if he wished he hadn't mistrusted his friends for even a moment. And he included Sally. "Anyhow," he said suddenly in a different tone, "maybe it did do some good for me to get all worked up! I got kind of frantic. I figured somebody'd made a fool of me, and I was going to put something over on you."
The psychologist separated the finished from the unfinished work with a sheet of yellow paper and crammed the whole business into his brief case. "I was hoping somebody'd show up...." Benson lit a cigarette, sipped his highball.
He said he wished somebody'd take that horn off his hands so's he could buy sumpthing else. That's just exactly what he said. I heard him tell my mother.
Somebody'd been saying things against you, down street somewhere " she hesitated, glancing at her husband, who nodded, and said, "Go on he'll have it out of us now, anyhow." "They said," she continued, "that you were the most brutal surgeon in the State, and that you hadn't any heart. Some of them made this wager, and they all sneaked up here behind the one that steered Franz to your window."
But I wouldn't 'a' asked her, I'd as soon slap anybody as quiz 'em, an' besides I knew't somebody'd tell me if I kep' still. Friendship'll tell you everything you want to know, if you lay low long enough. An' sure as the world, 'bout five o'clock in come Mis' Postmaster Sykes, lookin' troubled. Folks always looks that way when they come to interfere.
"And the sooner everything that reminds us of them is gone the better." "Say," Honey Smith burst out the next morning. "Funny thing happened to me in the middle the night. I woke out of a sound sleep don't know why woke with a start as if somebody'd shaken me felt something brush me so close well, it touched me.
But we had hardly entered upon the hour before the ground for Calliope's warning was demonstrated. "There!" she herself bridged a pause with her ready little laugh, "I knew somebody'd pass me somethin' while I was saltin' my potato. My brother, older, always said that at home. 'I never salt my potato, he use' to say, 'without somebody passes me somethin'."
"All these years nobody ever heard from Dick. Once in a while somebody'd come from town and say they'd seen somebody that had seen somebody else, and that somebody had seen Dick way out in California or Lord knows where, and that was all the news that ever come back.
And she added somebody'd have to run over her again to make her do it a second time." Betty laughed gayly as she flung back the covers and slipped out of bed. "Goodness, I don't wonder you were doubtful," she said. "Maybe she's changed her mind by this time. Anyway, we can ask her and see."
They kinder eyed them steps, but they didn't say nothin'." For a moment Garvin's chief henchman walked the floor, then he snarled out, "Did they ask anything erbout me?" "Jim Calloway 'lowed that somebody'd done seed you in this country, an' I said no, that you was over thar in Virginny." Again there was a moment's silence after which Dawson's orders came in quick staccato violence.
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