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Co back to Marie and Joe--it was not at all certain that they would

meet; or that Joe would mention him, even if they did A wrecked home is

always a touchy subject, so touchy that Joe had never intimated in his

few remarks to Bud that there had ever been a Marie, and Bud, drunk

as he had been, was still not too drunk to hold back the question that

clamored to be spoken

Whether he admitted it to himself or not, the sober Bud Moore who lay on

his bunk nursing a headache and a grouch against the world was ashamed

of the drunken Bud Moore who had paraded his drunkenness before the man

who knew Marie He did not want Marie to hear what Joe ht tell There

was no use, he told hi Marie despise hiht think hi to be a kind and loving husband; but

she could not, unless Joe told of his spree, say that she had ever heard

of his carousing around That it would be his own fault if she did hear,

served only to elared at Cash, who had cooked his supper and was

sitting down to eat it alone Cash was looking particularly misanthropic

as he bent his head to meet the upward journey of his coffee cup, and