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Show 174 but she didn't say it to anybody or anything, she just said it to the air. Chaplain Captain Chaplain touched her hand while Red went out the door. "You can't keep him here," Helen said to him. Chaplain Captain Chaplain looked away. He'd learned how to keep his mouth shut but he hadn't yet learned how to look like he didn't xxx have anything to say. He got better by the end of the war. What he didn't get better at was realizing what people really meant when they said stuff, like Helen probably would never had said "You can't keep him here" kxgfi if she meant it, if she didn't want Chaplain Captain Chaplain to figure out some way to X keep Red in San Diego, if he'd have done his end she'd have worried axxxixxxB about the rest, for Red better mad than dead, and Red felt the same way, though he could never admit it, that's why it got him so upset that he didn't get sent out. "What?" said Helen. The Chaplain shook his head. Sometimes he forgot he was young because he always ended up in charge of social situations, and sojy did everybody else. "Who told you?" he said to Helen. "I'm the person in this story who mysteriously knows this stuff, " said Helen, as if it wasn't obvious to everybody in the camp except Chaplain Captain Chaplain and Red that the Chaplain was working at keeping his handball and horse shoe partner in camp. She also knew Red wasn't going to die in the Pacific, but of course a lot of people thought they knew stuff like that and often it turned out they were wrong. Red came back in the house. He shook his xaaa* head. -I'm leaving next week," Helen told him. "I'm not going to wake up here some morning and find out you're gone." "Shit," xx said Red. "You got the Chaplain," said Helen. So Helen gave her notice at the bank where they were very disappointed and wanted to x know why she just didn't settle in San Diego where it was warm all year and she had a good job and she could be right there waiting at the port when Red got back. But «^ho-**« t h o g ^ r e the exact i reasons why Helen was leaving. |
