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Show -31 who never properly lived with Adam at all. She just came over to the house twice a week to cook his dinner and keep company with him. She's a professional woman, she says, and wanted a life of her own. Does she still come over, Jacob?" "Every week." "That's sad," I said. "I wish that he could have had a real woman just one time before he died. Or maybe he did, maybe your mother was the one." "I don't think so," Jacob said. "How old is Carlo?" Morgan said. "Nineteen." Jacob smiled. "He's a smart one. He could do anything. He had the highest I.Q. that the Marysville school district ever tested." "The year after I left home," I said, "when he was nine, he won an all-city chess championship. Jacob sent me the clipping out of the newspaper. One of ihe men he beat had been state champion of Oregon." "What kind of a woman is Alice?" Morgan said. "You'll have to meet her. Isn't that right, Jacob? A very tough lady. She raised Carlo until he was three years old and then turned him over to Adam lock stock and barrel. She's not sentimental." "She had a bright child," Jacob said. "Some of that was Adam's doing," I said. "The proof |