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He has His own reasons, and if Jesus Himself didn't<br />

mind eating supper with prostitutes and washing the<br />

smelly feet of fishermen, I bet He don't mind me<br />

washing Mr. Smalter's sink." With that rebuttal Orchid<br />

ended, for today, a six-year argument and changed the<br />

subject. "Well, that's too bad what you say about Judith<br />

being sick. Right on top of the poor Sister with her<br />

heart giving out, passing away alone like that in the night<br />

with no chance for the Last Rites."<br />

"Well, it don't mean Judith'll be gone in a week.<br />

Like I told her last night on the phone, 'Honey,<br />

sometimes people live their whole life long with a bad<br />

heart, so don't you let it worry you.' I told Hawk the<br />

same. Him and Joe got on the phone about Maynard<br />

Henry. Did I tell you that the people in Argyle locked<br />

Maynard up with that crazy old man, the one, you<br />

remember, that was out shaking his black dingle in the<br />

innocent faces of little white children? Joe said Maynard<br />

was just about foaming at the mouth, he was so mad<br />

being shut up with that old Negro. Put in with a loco,<br />

like he was a loco.<br />

When everybody knows that Raoul Treeca has had

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