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up officially unless I do. Arthur and the rest of them just<br />

do whatever you tell them anyhow."<br />

Ransom smiled to shake away this presumed power<br />

over Dingley Falls's selectmen, while Scaper pawed at<br />

the ground with his putter and mumbled, "Something,<br />

well, doesn't make sense. Now I know I never was<br />

much of a diagnostic man, no eye for fancy guesswork,<br />

just fiddle and fix, and I'm not denying I haven't kept<br />

up; who could, working the way I do?"<br />

Ransom nodded. "Of course. Just what is—"<br />

"But I've poked around in a lot of insides and sent<br />

out a lot of tests. I'm not going to get you balled up in a<br />

lot of lingo, Ern, but the situation is I'm getting all this<br />

endocarditis, and it's not responding the way it ought to.<br />

And awhile back that goddamn fluky brucellosis costing<br />

me Pauline Hedgerow before I could turn around! You<br />

know?<br />

No reason— what? What? You say something?"<br />

Scaper turned his right ear to the banker. A hearing aid<br />

was looped there.<br />

Ransom looked bland and blank, but not at all<br />

impatient. "No, but tell you the truth, Otto, I don't see

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