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Show 157 the Kronenburger Club and watched him set pins till he got off, and so pretty that all the other workers there kidded him constantly and envied him completely; and she told him he should send his axixi drawings to magazines and newspapers and art schools, or become a country singer or even sing at weddings around town, or go to college in business and get a job with a big company, and when he sang her songs he saw the £ixa flush come to the dark skin of her cheeks and saw her dark green eyes fill with the hint of tears, and when he touched her she trembled and clutched his chest and made him feel like the world had been made for him to protect it, and that there was something inside him deep in so peaceful and calm, some deep thing that only Helen Pell brought out, something he had never felt before and never wanted to feel with anyone else again; and XHBXX family and Church had nothing to do with any of that. Besides, Whitey didn't need help with the storm windows. Whitey'd just make him stand around and hold things. "I'll help him tomorrow," said Red. "Don't leave," said Emma Loop. She shook the cleaver at him. "I'll help tomorrow," said Red and turned for the door. Emma Loop threw the cleaver. And it stuck in the woodwork of the back door- Red watched the quiver of the blade and the quiver of Emma's lips. "Don't come back," she said. "Don't you dare come back." Bush was always a little distant with Red, though while he waited for Helen she served him sweet wine and chocolate xkax which he ate at first because he didn't want to turn down anything though by now he'd started to like it. "As far as I'm concerned," she always told him, "I tell the neighbors you're a good Irish kid." This was the first time he got the joke which on top of everything else he felt made him feel stupid and if there was one thing Red didn't like to feel it was stupid. Bush looked at Red real close and got out the whiskey for the first time. "You don't look so good tonight," she said. She liked having Red come around because xiixxax Stanley was dead and all the boys were in college, and even if Red was a Lutheran, he was clean and he was big and he treated Helen good and he wasn't so dumb as his »K*sr3ri*x «i *P and muscles made him look, and if he wasn't going to be |