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-77-That summer they got him a job as bel boy in a smal hotel at Bay Head that was run by a lady who was aparishioner of Dr. If that happened he'd probably drop dead of a heart attack. If Saul Bellow wroteromantic suspense fiction, this is what he'd write. I'd only been out of the waterfor a few minutes, but already the day's sticky heat was folding overme, stealing my rush.

Something rattled in the underbrush to my left. -343-Joe had bought tickets to the Hippodrome but they had plenty of time before that started. Fine, he said in a prissy little all right, be that way voice. I only saw her once, your wife, but I thought she was verybeautiful.