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“Everyone is happy with you.”
“So you say, Norma.”
“Call backs on your left as usual. Think-about-its are on the
top right and make-’em-sweat on the bottom right. Oh, and
that report I gave you a few days ago? There’s an update. Do
you want me to re-print the whole thing or just the new
activity?”
“Just the new activity is fine. Thank you, Norma. I
appreciate it.”
That was it. She had plenty to do on her own desk and the
senator needed to attend to his, but he wasn’t quite ready.
“Norma?”
“Yes, Senator?”
“Have you seen Eugene?”
“No, Senator, I haven’t. Would you like me to track him
down?”
“It’s just unlike him to be absent so long,” Ambrose mused.
“Maybe he’s playing hooky.”
“Do you think he might have?”
“There’s a first time for everything, Senator.” The woman
shrugged.
“True, Norma, but it’s Eugene we’re talking about.”
“You have a point there,” she said. “Really. No trouble to
find him for you.”
“Thank you, Norma. Perhaps that’s a good idea.”
She left only to return ten minutes later and proved her
worth. She had everything he wanted: the new print out and
information on where Eugene had gone.
Ambrose thanked her for both. As she left, he was thinking
that the boy was proving more interesting than Ambrose gave
him credit for.