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‘Oh, for gosh sakes!’ cried Douglas ‘Stop!’

Douglas and Toh the boxed and packaged town, through the avenues and streets and alleys, aht prisons, down the definite sidewalks and the positive lanes, and the country seemed far away and it was as if a sea had moved away from the shore of their life in one day Suddenly there was the town and their lives to be lived in that town in the next forty years, opening and shutting doors and raising and lowering shades, and the green meadoas distant and alien

Douglas looked over at Toer in his stoht of theout the candles and sitting there with fourteen years burnt behind her and not caring, very pretty and soleht of the Lonely One, very lonely indeed, wanting love, and now gone

Douglas stopped at Charlie’s house, feeling the season change about them

‘Here’s where I leave you guys,’ said Charlie ‘See you later, at the haunted house with those duirls’

‘Yeah, see you later, Charlie’

‘So long, Charlie,’ said Tom

‘You know so back toward his friends, as if he’d suddenly reot an uncle, twenty–five years old Ca Buick, with his wife A really nice, pretty lady I was thinkin’ all : Maybe I’ll let them make e If they’ll letwith the kids Just a nice car and a pretty lady without toward the lake Boy! I’ll take about thirty years of that I’m puttin’ in my order for thi

rty years of being twenty-five Fill ’er up and I’m on my way’

‘It’s solas

‘I’ht now,’ said Charlie

‘So, when do we start the war again?’ said Tom

Charlie and Douglas looked at each other

‘Heck, I dunno,’ said Doug, a little uncomfortably

‘Tomorrow, next week, next month?’