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-161-The heavy trailing scarf caught in a wheel, wound tight. It began to hit Joe kinder funny but Del was sore as the devil and said she'd have him arrested for insult to the uniform and assault and battery an When they asked him about the war and the submarines and al that he didn't know what to tel 'em so he kinder kidded them along. Listening to the sludge of water from the bow and watching the wabbly white finger of the searchlight pick up buoys and lighthouses he began to pul himself together.

Towards evening her name was cal ed and she found Webb and Ada and a lawyer clustered around the policesergeant's-277-desk. Joe divvied up the cigars but he kept the silk stockings for himself. e hard benches with their faces powdered with dust and their mouths ful of it and not a cent in anybody's jeans left to buy a drink with. He took Bram around to Helen's.