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Some-body was holding him up under the arms and was drag-ging him free of the cattleguard on the track. Helooked fatter than when Margo had last seen him and had patches of silvery hair on either side of his forehead that gave him a distinguished look like a minister or an ambas-sador. While he was fumbling through his story, Charley-289-kept repeating to himself in the back of his head, Now, bo, don't make an ass of yourself the first day. -166-He'd lurch into the house drunk and dirty and smel ing of stale beer and whiskey and curse and grumble about the food
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