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"
Quit
the
breast
-
beating
;
it
wouldn
’
t
have
suggested
anything
to
me
,
either
.
But
the
pro
who
was
working
for
me
is
a
very
sneaky
character
;
he
arrived
at
Paoli
with
a
convincing
statprint
made
from
the
photograph
that
was
taken
under
Kilgallen
’
s
nose
–
and
with
business
cards
and
credentials
that
made
it
appear
that
he
himself
was
‘
Osbert
Kilgallen
,
’
the
addressee
.
Then
,
with
his
fatherly
manner
and
sincere
face
,
he
hornswoggled
a
young
lady
employee
of
I
.
T
.
&
T
.
into
telling
him
things
which
,
under
the
privacy
amendment
to
the
Constitution
,
she
should
have
divulged
only
under
court
order
–
very
sad
.
Anyhow
,
she
did
remember
receiving
that
message
for
file
and
processing
.
Ordinarily
she
wouldn
’
t
remember
one
message
out
of
hundreds
–
they
go
in
her
ears
and
out
her
fingertips
and
are
gone
,
save
for
the
filed
microprint
.
But
,
luckily
,
this
young
lady
is
one
of
Ben
’
s
faithful
fans
;
she
reads
his
‘
Crow
’
s
Nest
’
column
every
night
–
a
hideous
vice
.
"
Jubal
blinked
his
eyes
thoughtfully
at
the
horizon
.
"
Front
!
"
Anne
appeared
,
dripping
.
"
Remind
me
,
"
Jubal
said
to
her
,
"
to
write
a
popular
article
on
the
compulsive
reading
of
news
.
The
theme
will
be
that
most
neuroses
and
some
psychoses
can
be
traced
to
the
unnecessary
and
unhealthy
habit
of
daily
wallowing
in
the
troubles
and
sins
of
five
billion
strangers
.
The
title
is
‘
Gossip
Unlimited
’
–
no
,
make
that
‘
Gossip
Gone
Wild
.
’
"
"
Boss
,
you
’
re
getting
morbid
.
"
"
Not
me
.
But
everybody
else
is
.
See
that
I
write
it
some
time
next
week
.
Now
vanish
;
I
’
m
busy
.
"
He
turned
back
to
Gillian
.
"
She
noticed
Ben
’
s
name
,
so
she
remembered
the
message
–
quite
thrilled
about
it
,
because
it
let
her
speak
to
one
of
her
heroes
?
and
was
irked
,
I
gather
,
because
Ben
hadn
’
t
paid
for
vision
as
well
as
voice
.
Oh
,
she
remembers
it
and
she
remembers
,
too
,
that
the
service
was
paid
for
by
cash
from
a
public
booth
–
in
Washington
.
"
"
‘
In
Washington
’
?
"
repeated
Jill
.
"
But
why
would
Ben
call
from
-
"
"
Of
course
,
of
course
!
"
Jubal
agreed
pettishly
.
"
If
he
’
s
at
a
public
phone
booth
anywhere
in
Washington
,
he
can
have
both
voice
and
vision
direct
to
his
office
,
face
to
face
with
his
assistant
,
cheaper
,
easier
,
and
.
quicker
than
he
could
phone
a
stat
message
to
be
sent
back
to
Washington
from
a
point
nearly
two
hundred
miles
away
.
It
doesn
’
t
make
sense
.
Or
,
rather
,
it
makes
just
one
kind
of
sense
.
Hanky
-
panky
.
Ben
is
as
used
to
hanky
-
panky
as
a
bride
is
to
kisses
.
He
didn
’
t
get
to
be
one
of
the
best
winchells
in
the
business
through
playing
his
cards
face
up
.
"
"
Ben
is
not
a
winchell
!
He
’
s
a
Lippmann
!
"
"
Sorry
,
I
’
m
color
-
blind
in
that
range
.
Keep
quiet
.
He
might
have
believed
that
his
phone
was
tapped
but
his
statprinter
was
not
.
Or
he
might
have
suspected
that
both
were
tapped
–
and
I
’
ve
no
doubt
they
are
,
by
now
,
if
not
then
–
and
that
he
could
use
this
round
-
about
relay
to
convince
whoever
was
tapping
him
that
he
really
was
away
from
Washington
and
would
not
be
back
for
several
days
.
"
Jubal
frowned
.
"
In
the
latter
case
we
would
be
doing
him
no
favor
by
finding
him
.
We
might
be
endangering
his
life
.
"
