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Finally the lawyer, accepted an offer by A.A.
Hayes to share a Scotch at the Prim Minster. While he
was too shaken to bear the solicitude of his wife's
friends or of his old college roommate, he found he
could not afford solitude just yet. With the newsman be
could focus on news other than his own. Abernathy and
Hayes were not intimate; neither had aspired to
"friendship" for many years. But their minds had moved
each toward the other's, so that at parties the two men
usually found themselves off by the bar—by Hayes's
request—alone in conversation. Abernathy and
Ransom, on the other hand, had never learned to talk
easily together, though they had lived during their
undergraduate years in New Haven in the same bland
room. Abernathy suspected he made Ernest
uncomfortable because he knew so much about him.
But with Hayes, Abernathy shared a professional
interest, shared the luck of being paid (Abernathy much
more handsomely) to do what each most enjoyed—
working with words to find out truths. Not so much to
right wrongs with their proofs, but more purely and
simply to penetrate truth's secrets with the pin of