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"Really And what’s that?"

"A photograph albu it as soon as possible Today, actually, if it’s not inconvenient"

I keptabout My Aunt Susanna had given me the album shortly after we e had arrived when I was out of town, so Henry had passed it on to Stacey Oliphant, who’d brought it down to the desert town of Quoru a case The alburaphs, and I’d been touched by the gesture There was never any suggestion that the albuht about it, I could see that it wasn’t mine to keep

I said, "I’ood I drove down fro to divert any further trouble"

"Who’s causing trouble?"

She hesitated "Your cousin, Tasha"

"What’s she have to do with it?"

"She’s been planning an event She said she sent you an invitation"

"Sure I received it last week"

"She needs the old fa, but when she asked Cornelia for the albuot very snippy and now Cornelia bla about Grand"

"Your grand stubborn, refusing to hand over the album because she’s so possessive about the fale"

"Why didn’t Aunt Susanna speak up? She’s the one who sent me the album If she wants it back, all she has to do is ask"

"Oh no, dear Susanna didn’t send the album I did"

"You did?"

She nodded "Last April"