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Evie raised an eyebrow "Yeah? What’s that? I already told you the bank’s closed"

"So" He pulled a necklace froasped "Holy set this?"

"Would you believe a generous aunt?"

"No"

"Didn’t think so Where I got it, they won’t hed "Sam…"

"I know their type They don’t care what happens to anyone but theazines and billboards tell the"

"And Uncle Will thinks I’m cynical!" Evie shoved the necklace back into Sas that don’t belong to you, Sam"

"Why not? If captains of industry do it, they’re heroes If little people like me do it, we’re criminals"

"Now you sound like a Bolshevik Say, you’re not one of those anarchists, are you?"

"Bootout a bit hard

"What elance "You ever hear of so called Project Buffalo?"

"Can’t say that I have"

"Well, if you look for any inforovern the war"

"Then how do you know about it?"

"My mother went to work on it She took some kind of test--"

"A test? What…?"

"Don’t know Whatever it was, she scored pretty high She and ht about it I heard ’eo ‘What can we do?’ she said My father said no My father loves the word no" Sam’s face clouded "Anyway, overnment showed up They had my dad’s papers Told him they could send hi back to Russia to starve or be killed He had a nice house and a fur business So that night, s and left She sent us only one letter Most of it had been blacked over But she said they were doing good work, ie ain When my father wrote to theht"