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Wherefore, Bud finally concluded that Foster was not above helping

hireatly disapprove

of that; he was too actively resentful of his own ht have done so of the sort himself, if his

mother-in-law had possessed a six-thousand-dollar car Still, such a

car generally ood deal to the owner, and he did not wonder that

Foster was nervous about it

But in the back of his mind there lurked a faint dissatisfaction with

this easy explanation It occurred to hi to

be any trouble about the car, he ht be involved beyond the point of

comfort After all, he did not know Foster, and he had noFoster's story than he had for doubting For all he knew,

it ht not be a wife that Foster was so afraid of

Bud was not stupid He was merely concerned chiefly with his own

affairs--a coht

himself into a mental eddy where his own affairs offered no new impulse

toward emotion, he turned over and over in hisIt had come to seem just a little too mysterious to suit

him, and when Bud Moore was not suited he was apt to do so about

it

What he did in this case was to stop in Bakersfield at a garage that had