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Show 101 "Red," said Bush. "You're a good man." We all had some chocolate, except for Helen, and x Red shared a drink with Bush. "Who are you working for up there," ax Bush asked Helen, "that you have to make sacrifices on top of all the other manure that gets handed down to you?" "I took an oath," said Helen. "It's a secret." "I know all about it," said Bush. "Jarvis, here, eat your mother's candy." I had another piece. Bush took a belt. "You see how the world goes? If it doesn't go here it goes there." "Or it doesn't," I said. I'd been praticing with the Dialecticians. She shook her finger at me. "It goes. Don't tell me. That's the only thing you can count on." "You'll be out before Thanksgiving and you won't be able to travel to David's a£ or Frances's," said Helen. "Why don't you have it with us?" "I don't know," said Bush. "I promised Stanley." Red gave Helen a bad stare, though I knew he didn't want Bush and Jon over for Thanksgiving anyway but gave in after a long fight because Helen xa really thought Bush and Jon wouldn't have anyplace to go, so he v/as going to be pissed no matter what happened and in this case he was pissed because after all he'd done for Bush and Jon they were going to go to Stanley's for Thanksgiving. "I'm not dead yet," Bush said into the phone. Crow There were only three bedrooms in our house, all upstairs along with the bathroom axixa outside which stood the only heat up there, a small steam radiator that Red painted silver- Red painted all the radiators in the house silver, he said it v/as the best color for radiating heat. The floors upstairs were all rough wood because Red tore up the linoleum in all the rooms axxxxx one Down-down Day after a fight with k Helen. It iaaka* looked like it was going to turn out to be productive destruction for a change, but since we didn't have any money and anyway Red seldom got so mad that he madeAinstead of tearing it apart, now we haa hnr-o ,„onH ,m there and if you walked with bare feet you gia got |