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"
Jubal
!
No
!
"
"
Jubal
,
yes
,
"
he
answered
wearily
.
"
That
boy
skates
close
to
the
edge
,
he
always
has
.
He
s
utterly
fearless
and
that
s
how
he
s
made
his
reputation
.
But
the
rabbit
is
never
more
than
two
jumps
ahead
of
the
coyote
and
this
time
maybe
one
jump
.
Or
none
,
Jill
,
Ben
has
never
tackled
a
more
dangerous
assignment
than
this
.
If
he
has
disappeared
voluntarily
and
he
may
have
do
you
want
to
risk
stirring
things
up
by
bumbling
around
in
your
amateur
way
,
calling
attention
to
the
fact
that
he
has
dropped
out
of
sight
?
Kilgallen
still
has
him
covered
,
as
Ben
s
column
has
appeared
every
day
.
I
don
t
ordinarily
read
it
but
I
ve
made
it
my
business
to
know
,
this
time
.
"
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"
Canned
columns
!
Mr
.
Kilgallen
told
me
so
.
"
"
Of
course
.
Some
of
Ben
s
perennial
series
on
corrupt
campaign
funds
.
That
s
a
subject
as
safe
as
being
in
favor
of
Christmas
.
Maybe
they
re
kept
on
file
for
such
emergencies
or
perhaps
Kilgallen
is
writing
them
.
In
any
case
,
Ben
Caxton
,
the
ever
-
ready
Advocate
of
the
Peepul
,
is
still
officially
on
his
usual
soap
box
.
Perhaps
he
planned
it
that
way
,
my
dear
because
he
found
himself
in
such
danger
that
he
did
not
dare
get
in
touch
even
with
you
.
Well
?
"
Gillian
glanced
fearfully
around
her
at
a
scene
almost
unbearably
peaceful
,
bucolic
,
and
beautiful
then
covered
her
face
with
her
hands
.
"
Jubal
?
I
don
t
know
what
to
do
!
"
"
Snap
out
of
it
,
"
he
said
gruffly
.
"
Don
t
bawl
over
Ben
not
in
my
presence
.
The
worst
that
can
possibly
have
happened
to
him
is
death
and
that
we
are
all
in
for
if
not
this
morning
,
then
in
days
,
or
weeks
,
or
years
at
most
.
Talk
to
your
protg
Mike
about
it
.
He
regards
discorporation
as
less
to
be
feared
than
a
scolding
and
he
may
be
right
.
Why
,
if
I
told
Mike
we
were
going
to
roast
him
and
serve
him
for
dinner
tonight
,
he
would
thank
me
for
the
honor
with
his
voice
choked
with
gratitude
.
"
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"
I
know
he
would
,
"
Jill
agreed
in
a
small
voice
,
"
but
I
don
t
have
his
philosophical
attitude
about
such
things
.
"
"
Nor
do
I
,
"
Harshaw
agreed
cheerfully
,
"
but
I
m
beginning
to
grasp
it
and
I
must
say
that
it
is
a
consoling
one
to
a
man
of
my
age
.
A
capacity
for
enjoying
the
inevitable
why
,
I
ve
been
cultivating
that
all
my
life
?
but
this
infant
from
Mars
,
barely
old
enough
to
vote
and
too
unsophisticated
to
stand
clear
of
the
horse
cars
,
has
me
convinced
that
I
ve
just
reached
the
kindergarten
class
in
this
all
-
important
subject
.
Jill
,
you
asked
if
Mike
was
welcome
to
stay
on
.
Child
,
he
s
the
most
welcome
guest
I
ve
ever
had
.
I
want
to
keep
that
boy
around
until
I
ve
found
out
what
it
is
that
he
knows
and
I
don
t
!
This
discorporation
thing
in
particular
it
s
not
the
Freudian
death
-
wish
clich
,
I
m
sure
of
that
.
It
has
nothing
to
do
with
life
being
unbearable
.
None
of
that
Even
the
weariest
river
stuff
it
s
more
like
Stevenson
s
Glad
did
I
live
and
gladly
die
and
I
lay
me
down
with
a
will
!
Only
I
ve
always
suspected
that
Stevenson
was
either
whistling
in
the
dark
,
or
,
more
likely
,
enjoying
the
compensating
euphoria
of
consumption
.
But
Mike
has
me
halfway
convinced
that
he
really
knows
what
he
is
talking
about
.
"