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he turned away and started down the river, along the bank, heading back to the occupied buildings of St. 'Only more aristocratic,' she guessed. 'We have to get the mice before the ground freezes, or else they'll have the run of the orchards all winter,' the foreman explained. Olive's death (Homer wrote to Larch) had 'fixed' things for Candy and Wally more securely than Wally's paralysis, or than whatever sense of betrayal and guilt might have plagued Candy.

'You want to _pees_ now?' the Burmese asked Wally. I would like it very much if you thought you could be happy here, Homer—you could stay in Wally's room. He went downstairs to the kitchen where Angel was pushing Wally around in the wheelchair—it was a game they played when they were both restless. A door opened, but what Curly Day was caterwauling about was no clearer.