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Show «L?0 "But I . . . Oh god!" "When he called you Ace, I thought it was a joke." "I did too." "Did you, Chess? Are you saying that all this time you really didn't know he believed in those planes?" My face was back in the dark, for which I was thankful. But she went over to the wing chair and sat down facing me, enough light so that I could see her face clearly. "I wasn't sure," I said. "Because it was_ a joke, it all started as a joke." "You didn't want to deceive anybody at all?" "God no!" "Then I don't understand,how did Ben and Amelia and a hundred others get so well deceived?" "All right. Well, here's the way it started." I told her about the Jewish girl who didn't want to have anything to do with me. Yes, that was deception but I had felt justified. And then the guy at the employment office. Kate could understand that, no problem, so I told her how the Ellis Co-op had made a joke of it, and how the joke must have traveled to The Castle. "But Ben didn't take it as a joke," site s*<'d f'«-''y- |