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"I know that, I've ridden double a lot."<br />

"Okay then, hang on to me."<br />

"You hang on to me."<br />

"Jeez, women's lib!"<br />

This sarcasm made Polly smile. She'd always felt<br />

liberated, but couldn't recall anyone's ever having called<br />

her a woman before.<br />

Orchid O'Neal had crossed Elizabeth Circle to<br />

clean up Mrs. Troyes's house, so Ramona Dingley<br />

answered Polly's ring herself.<br />

"Hello. Step in. Turning a bit warmer. May rain.<br />

Good of you to come. Must wonder what I'm up to."<br />

Then the wide black figure disappeared as her<br />

wheelchair took an abrupt left turn. Seconds later it shot<br />

backwards into the hall again. "In here." The chair<br />

vanished.<br />

With some trepidation Polly followed it into a room<br />

that far surpassed what Father Fields had described as<br />

"very interesting." She quickly decided that it would be<br />

less offensive to stare at the stuffed animals than at the<br />

religious statuary, and so she did.<br />

"Creepy, ain't it?" her hostess asked with, Polly was

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