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Show to be ambushed by a much smaller spider darting out from beneath a shingle. At first it is hard to tell who is winning. But when the movements of the long spindly legs become awkward, and they draw together strangely, Dave declares the winner. The little one's tied up the big one, he announces, and lifting the doomed insect to the sunlight he shows Morgan the almost invisible ropes. Late in the afternoon Morgan begins to look for Anne' s car on the gravel road, but somehow he knows she is not coming. When the telephone rings he thinks it might be her but it is not, it is Carol calling from San Francisco, to talk with Dave, to say that her flight will arrive at two-thirty on Saturday afternoon. Now, they agree, they have a deadline; the completed paint job will be a surprise for her. When the sun sets and Anne has not arrived, Morgan cleans up and reluctantly agrees to supper at a neighbor's house. That night he sleeps restlessly, and in the morning he wakes up to find himself clutching the pillow with the faint yellow stripes. Thursday looks like rain but isn't. Morgan tries not to think about Anne but can't. He does succeed in worrying about his future, which he suspects will be at least partially resolved today; he is expecting Denver to call with their decision by five. He gets a late start on the house, and when he finally does get going he works alone and without enthusiasm. He feels hung-over but is not. The paint seems more difficult to apply because of the humidity, and his muscles are sore from the first two days' work. He does not |