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Dingley's, but he saw no one along the way.<br />

"You see, Ernest, it did not begin to rain until the<br />

sun went down. Elijah Dingley must be quite a friend of<br />

our Lord's. They say it has never rained once on his<br />

day in a hundred years." Father Highwick had decided<br />

on this opening observation as the Ransoms' maid,<br />

Wanda Tojek, took his raincoat. He delivered the<br />

remark first to her, then to his host, who, inserting a<br />

gold cufflink, had come immediately downstairs to greet<br />

the rector in the off-mauve living room.<br />

"Yes, Otto lost faith this afternoon because of those<br />

clouds, but I guess heaven stays on our side. A little<br />

humid on the back nine, that's all." With this reply,<br />

Ransom took Highwick's hand and shook it in<br />

welcome, though they saw each other nearly every day.<br />

The evening's party was given, according to Priss<br />

Ransom's handwritten invitations, to toast the fact that<br />

there was a Dingley Falls in existence for them to have<br />

the party in. "Join us for flounder on Founder's Day,"<br />

she'd said. Today was the day formally established in<br />

Dingley Falls during the Gilded Age to commemorate<br />

the fact that on May 31, 1676, Elijah Dingley (sick of

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