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Frank glanced at the clock, then back at me, almostapologetically. You'll see himin Castle County Probate Court this fall. No one who had an idea ofwhat Jared and his prot6gs had done condoned it, exactly, but when thechips were down. The landlady began to ask for next week's rent.

I doubt that, she said. She didn't know what to do. When Michaelson's wife and children came to see him he introduced them to Charley and said that being laid up next to a bright young fel ow like that made being sick-382-a pleasure. I wish to God I hadn't been.