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William instead. I remember seeing a gentleman hand a<br />

whole bunch of roses to Ro Dingley at the old Dingley<br />

Falls station when she came back from France in 1924,<br />

but that wasn't for love, just tennis. Oh, I wish I had a<br />

granddaughter. Isn't that something, William, that Bill's<br />

granddaughter is already a grown woman, and a<br />

doctor, and I remember when Ruth was only eleven<br />

and outscored you and Ernie Ransom both at<br />

shuffleboard that Fourth of July?"<br />

"Rubbish. She did not."<br />

"She did so, I remember it too." Deeds nodded. He<br />

knew very well that Bredforet wanted to accompany<br />

him to the train station, but was too stubborn to invite<br />

him. Deeds chuckled as he waved from the car window<br />

at his bored employer, who had early on given his life<br />

over to hobbies, like lechery, that were fun for the short<br />

run but that could not go the distance, that lacked the<br />

stamina to jog along with time. As opposed to hobbies<br />

like gardening. Or raising a family who would give you<br />

grandchildren.<br />

In his garden, Ernest Ransom rested after a two-

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