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saved her from Victor Grabaski, from law, from loss,
had done so by marrying her—all this Judith imagined
from Sarah's remarks to be Chin Lam's story. That
Maynard had struck Chin because she had allowed
herself to be swept away by Raoul Treeca, who had
told her something she could not understand, but that
she must go back somewhere, that the other refugees
were somewhere else, and he would take her to them,
all this Judith assumed had bewildered the girl. Forced
to imagine the planes and buildings and people shouting,
Judith Haig had felt, unavoidably, what those months
must have been to Chin. She could not help but feel.
She was too sensitive. "I'm sorry," she kept saying, "but
what can I do?"
"You ask your husband? He could let Maynard go?
Maynard is so…angry. Angry all the time. He lose, lost
job making roads." Chin danced with her arms her
spouse's labor. "Sorry. So stupid. What is word?
Construction."
"Yes, the highway." Both their husbands, then, had
lost the highway.
"Yes. Now in jail. I have nobody. Chief Haig, he