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Show got Whitey and Emma to sign over their house to him- the house Red was xi brought up In, the one, he.helped buy. lived there now with Red's*sister frwi«t XxiXaxxaxxxSaiaixxXxxxaxxHHK An extension was built on the back for Whlfitey and Emma. Red couldn't even go over there and pound out the doors. So when things got bad for Red xxx they got really bad. He xxi? felt like he was living in a rainstorm of bad. Then Helen would xxxKxxxxxxxxxHOxJtxxxxHf flee with little Jarvis and Neda to her mother's and that whole side of the family would be aflame with how he was such a violent German Protestant bullhead and how his whole side of the family was £ good for nothing. And then he'd have to show up over there on Christmas or Easter or Mother's Day in front of Helen's family, her brother £xx Stan the chemical engineer, and her brother Jon the lawyer who was some kind of naval officer hero in charge of a dozen ships, and her brother David who just bought a big dairy farm down in Mercer Valley, and her sister Frances, who along with Helen and their mother worked scrubbing floors after the old man lost his fortune and died during the Depression, worked to send Stan and Jon and David to school, only after that Frances married Harvey Stano who was a big-wig with A " in Detroit, while Helen married him, Red Loop, a dumb forge worker who was good for only two things j good for nothin and good for shit. He could just picture them. They'd sit around in the living room and put their right legfover their left kneeft then their left kneeJ over their right, bouncing their ankles and drinking Carling Black Label and keeping pleasant long enough i for him to leave, unless they could talk about something sneaky like Catholic Liturgy which k Red didn't know anything about. So when Helen went to her mother's, Red left his doorless home, first putting a few dents into the vestibule wall, and went to see Funster. "Wait Funster was a little younger than Red, a little shorter, and a little fatter. He had a little less $aixx hair. Funster's family built the first house in the neighborhood eighty years ago and the main line of Funsters, three or four generations of them, stayed in the house ever since. Funsters saw the woods ± go down and the barns go up, then saw the fields turn to houses. Funsters saw the working class Yankees leave and the factory worker Polacks come in. NOW the old Polacks were dying and the neighborhood mm getting |
