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Show 34? always has thought we were a couple of hooores. Hey.' Kn w who Ben and I saw in a bar on 55th? Mr^ Calvin, that's who. With a jolly girl. Some sport, eh?' Mr. Calvin was a plumber, off to work early, sometimes comeng home late from "big jobs." We laughed. Sometimes he went out on "emergency calls": Oh, sir*, come and check out my pipes.' We laughed and joked but did not blame him. Carrie had probably been pretty once but now she wore her face like a mask, one that grew tighter and tighter every day, as if time were winding her up. IjCBr said that Mr. Calvin lirf^&ptfe, had propositioned her a couple of times. "Oh, wv«," said Amelia. "Me too. That doesn't count. We're just tfhere.' •„,„«.., , YtAlh auf- fUc totvcs 0* ki£.M WMRY After you moved out, he .M>&uM*u\i»<xa_-suu^ A "So?" said Ben. "If I lived across the .«#hall I'd try too. Especially if I was married to Mother Prohibition." "So where does he get off telling me to get Chess out of here?"/\*fc«i\, That's what he said, get him out. And damned righteous about it. He even told me there's a law against this sort of thing. Threatening me." BM6 chough We were all indignant at that, /^wasn't long before Amelia caught me alone and told me I really should move out. "I'm trying, I'm trying." "Try harder,. It's not fair to her, you know. I happen to know that there's all sorts of problems between loMia and John because of you." "Do you happen to know of a place?" "Isn't that up to you?" "Well, you know, I thought I had an apartment. I bAJfyar^UsA one, this great basement place, I thought half of it was mine. So maybe I can move in with you and Ben." "Don't change the subject. Be a good friend to her. She helped you." "I am, I am. What else am I doing?" Her look said that I was being plain selfish. I wanted to explain* to her that I was safer than any first cousin, as safe as a mule. |