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He looked at Devore with a kind of fawning eagernessthat sickened me, mostly because I knew who he was: Bill Dean's 1 bfhenKINL father. they hold hands with theirfriends everywhere they go. Before I could go any furtherthere was a click as someone picked up. I drove back the way I had come.

He said little MaxDevore broke into Scant Larribee's tack-shed one winter because hewanted the Flexible Flyer Scant give his boy Scooter for Christmas. It was colorful, black and purpleand reddish at the edges, but not terribly inflated. Charley thought it looked too expensive but Doc said it was his party. Not at the turn of the century.