Why, Eveline, I thought of you as a person who wouldn't be taken in by a big bluff like that. What I didmostly was wait, close up my town affairs, talk to Bill Dean when hecalled with the latest round of problems, and try not to think. Olaf went to sleep. I'm sure you've been told allthat by now.
Mattie, you're young enough to be my daughter. That there's a cloud around her you can't quite see. And what did they matter? What did onemore manifestation--one more blast of hot air from the GreatBeyond--matter? Thunder rolled and the sigh came again. Thinkabout it, for Christ's sake.
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