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to take charge of about twenty men on tools, dies, gigs and gauges. After they'd had their beer, he and Wil s went walking down the left bank of the Seine, looking at old books and engravings in the secondhand bookstal s and ended up having tea with Eleanor Stoddard. That's why, ma boy, I'm glad to see you up here. -269-It was a beautiful sunny day.

I guess we oughtn't to talk about it. Wel , I don't exactly find the time hanging on my hands. They both shivered in the chil y wind up the val ey that rustled the trees like rain, the river down below made a creaking grinding noise like a string of carts and wagons. Sometimes when Agnes was putting breakfast on the table, always in a fluster for fear Margie would miss the train to school, Agnes wou