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Updated: May 21, 2025
"I mean Mrs. Patch." "She out." Tana reassured him. "She be back five o'clock, she say." "Down in the village?" "No. Went off before lunch. She go Mr. Bloeckman." Anthony started. "Went out with Mr. Bloeckman?" "She be back five." Without a word Anthony left the kitchen with Tana's disconsolate "I tell" trailing after him. So this was Gloria's idea of excitement, by God!
After three-quarters of an hour Anthony was released with the warm assurance that they would have other nice chats in which Tana would tell "how we do in my countree." Such was Tana's garrulous premiere in the gray house and he fulfilled its promise. Though he was conscientious and honorable, he was unquestionably a terrific bore.
No wonder that, on the day of Tana's fall, terrible portents of woe were seen at Venice, that meteors appeared, that demons rode the air, that the winds and waters rose and blew down houses and swallowed ships! A thousand persons are said to have perished in the calamities which commemorated a stroke so mortally disastrous to the national grandeur.
The time required for quiet to descend upon the room like a monstrous pall may be estimated at two minutes, though for a short period after that the phonograph gags and the notes of the Japanese train song dribble from the end of TANA'S flute. Of the nine people only BARNES, PARAMORE, and TANA are unaware of the late-comer's identity.
"A fine example of an American." Anthony found his wife deep in the porch hammock voluptuously engaged with a lemonade and a tomato sandwich and carrying on an apparently cheery conversation with Tana upon one of Tana's complicated themes. "In my countree," Anthony recognized his invariable preface, "all time peoples eat rice because haven't got. Cannot eat what no have got."
Anyhow "So this is what you do when I have to go up and trot all day around the hot city on business. No wonder I can't write! No wonder I don't dare let you out of my sight!" He was expanding now, warming to his subject. "I'll tell you," he continued, "I'll tell you " He paused, catching a familiar ring in the words then he realized it was Tana's "I tell."
Later, just before dinner, while Maury and Dick were conversing uproariously, with Joe Hull listening in silence as he sipped his drink, Gloria drew Anthony into the dining room: "I don't like this man Hull," she said. "I wish he'd use Tana's bathtub." "I can't very well ask him to." "Well, I don't want him in ours." "He seems to be a simple soul." "He's got on white shoes that look like gloves.
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