19The second scene was in Chesterfield, which had been a hot address for the up-and-comers before most of the money moved even farther out to Wildwood and beyond. Gus to Bill: “I hate niggers, and you are themost obnoxious nigger I ever met. I even knew who was doing it, but I didn't know how to stop it. The laughter died slowly, and when she opened her eyes again, they were honey-brown.
Hekilled a cellmate, he crippled a guard, he assaulted a turnkey. I didn't want him to be gone. I resented the love-besotted fool part, but I let it go. Get me outside before I start feeling bad again.
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