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Even the balloons tied to the SARA LAUGHS sign (one white andone blue, both with WELCOME BACK MIKE. The orchestra played The Star-Spangled Banner again; Eleanor sang some of the chorus in a shril little treble voice. He got lost in a mil ion little narrow stone streets, but he figured that if he kept on going down hil he'd get to the harbor some-time. I stopped suddenly, the light shiningon the front of my car.

' Iwaited. The falling-away of his face had finally begun, an indefinablesomething that makes the eyes look too big, the jaw too prominent, themouth a bit loose. -373-plained that he was mighty generous to do it as it was to Charley's advantage to learn the business. I poked the blue-and-red cap at Mattie's hand untilher fingers closed on it.