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"And let them take it away? Never."
My tone was firm, and he saw that I meant it, especialy when I explained
that there would be nothing to do in the country, as mother and Sis
would play golf all day, and I was not allowed at the Club, and that the
Devil finds work for idle hands.
"But where in the name of good sense are you going to keep it?" he
inquired, in a wild tone.
"I have been thinking about that," I said. "I may have to buy a portible
Garage and have it set up somwhere."
"Look here," he said, "you give me a little time on this, will you? I'm
not naturaly a quick thinker, and somhow my brain won't take it all in
just yet. I suppose there's no use telling you not to worry, because you
are not the worrying kind."
How little he knew of me, after years of calls and conversation!
Just before he left he said: "Bab, just a word of advise for you. Pick
your Husband, when the time comes, with care. He ought to have the
solidaty of an elephant and the mental agilaty of a flee. But no
imagination, or he'll die a lunatic."
The next day he telephoned and said that he had found a place for the
car in the country, a shed on the Adams' place, which was emty, as the
Adams's were at Lakewood. So that was fixed.
Now my plan about the car was this: Not to go on indefanitely decieving
my parents, but to learn to drive the car as an expert. Then, when they
were about to say that I could not have one as I would kill myself in
the first few hours, to say:
"You wrong me.
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