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Dillon grunted "Hand me the coffee Another hour and we’ll be there"

"It took time for her to sell the Olds and buy the clunker It cut down on her lead Let’s say she’s got two hours on us That’s not too bad"

"Let’s hope she doesn’t realize you’re anywhere in the vicinity, like you seem to believe she did last time at her livee Harrison is the president and CEO of the First Philadelphia Union Bank He owns three clothing stores called the Gentleest steel ot out before the bottom fell out, and left his family millions As for Mrs Harrison, she comes from the Boston Thurmonds, who are all in public office, lots of old hters, Aot Down’s syndrome and is kept at a very nice private place near Boston"

"You want to stop at that gas station in Wilton? We’ll be there in half an hour"

"Let’s do it So"

"If she got so for three hundred bucks, it would really stand out"

But the guy who’d sold her the gas had gone hoht on to Philadelphia

Sally looked frorandmother Olivia She’d seen them two or three times a year every year of her life, except this past year

Their downstairs e ht blouse and jeans, and calmly led her to the inforrandparents atching Seinfeld on TV

Cecilia didn’t announce her, just left her there and quietly closed the door Sally didn’t say anything for a long tiive an occasional chuckle Her grand, she atching TV as well They were both seventy-six, in excellent health, and enjoyed the Juua twice a year

Sally waited for a comrandmother’s head jerked around, and she cried out, "Susan!"

Her grandfather said, "Is that really you, Susan? By all that’s holy,here?"

Neither of them randmother’s book slid from her lap to the beautiful Tabriz carpet

Sally took a step toward theivefor me, and I need to hide someplace I only have about seventeen dollars"

Franklin Harrison rose slowly He earing a ss were still evenwhen she’d been a very young girl She remembered how he’d held her and let her stroke the soft silk of the ascot His white hair was thick and wavy, his eyes a dark blue, his cheekbones high, but his hter now

Olivia Harrison rose as well, straightening the silk dress she earing She held out her hand "Susan, dear, why aren’t you with that lovely Doctor Beaderood thing for you, dear, not good for you at all, particularly with all the scandal that your father’s death has produced"

"He didn’t just die, Grandmother, he was murdered"

"Yes, we know All of us have suffered But noe’re concerned about you, Susan Your mother has told us how much Doctor Beaderotten We met him once and were very impressed with him Wasn’t that nice of him to come to Philadelphia to meet us? You are better, aren’t you, Susan? You aren’t still seeing things that aren’t there, are you? You’re not still blas they didn’t do?"

"No, Grande how neither of therandentle voice of hers that randfather and I have discussed this, and we hate to say it, but it’s possible that you’re like your uncle Geoffrey Your illness is probably hereditary, and so it isn’t really your fault Let me call Doctor Beaderrandmother "Uncle Geoffrey was born with Down’s syndro to do with mental illness"