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Suze was standing before us in the hallway

e returned She was crouched, her eyes beady, looking like she had been prowling through the house to find signs of soaze fixed mostly on me

"Anything wrong, Suze?" Harley's grandfather asked I heard her close the basement door

"You left the light on downstairs" she told him

My heart almost did a full flip-flop indiscoveries I had left it on

"Me? I don't think so," he replied "What's the difference if I did? It don't burn much electricity Well, what do you think Suze? The phones over in Hurleyville orking after all"

She s then?" she asked

"Just Su to stick around a while and help his old h some of th

is work, right Harley?"

"Yes sir," Harley said

"Hear that Susie? 'Yes, sir' That'ssome time off too for a ride with us?"

Where would he put her? I wondered, in the back?

"No I got some work," she said "I don't take days off at the drop of a pin"

Harley's grandfather roared and shook his head as she turned and went back to the kitchen or her holy room

"Let's see if the television's back on at least," his grandfather suggested