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“Wonderful,” she was saying “Come about one, Ben We’ll have some nice people in I’ll try not to have any of those you were subjected to at LJ’s”

She stood “I can’t be late picking up Euess I’ mother”

I stood, and we smiled This time, there was no kiss on the cheek

But I watched Elizabeth walk away again, every step, until she finally disappeared behind the roo house porch

Chapter 47

WASHINGTON, DC

That saan, Democrat of Alabaeneral er

“I have never been refused service in my life! That insufferablethe car for an iet off that car and wait for another car!”

Senator Morgan was so angry that specks of saliva were speckling the lapels of the generalcoat

“Senator, I am so sorry for the inconvenience—”

“Not an inconvenience! It’s a godda the elevator for, the goddamned president of the United States?”

As he roared this question, the great glass doors of the lobby flew open at the hands of two uniforuards In walked Theodore Roosevelt

He took one look at John Tyler Morgan in er Then Roosevelt thundered, “Unless my eyes deceive me, the man at the center of that ruckus is none other than the senior senator fro, John!”

The faeneral and southern statesman was stunned into silence No one had called him John in many years

“Morning, Mr President,” he finally ed to say