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so much we could do it for a living
“Mary brought salt with her,” I said”Bags and
bags of saltShe put it in the tubThe police
1103
want to know whyBut they’d never believe the
truth, would they?”
She stood before me with the thundering, incoming
waves behind herShe stood there blowing away and
re-forming from the sand beneath her, around her
She stood there and said nothing, only holding her
arm outstretched to take what she had come for
“Drawing you in the sand wasn’t enoughEven Mary
drowning you wasn’t enoughShe had to drown you
in salt water I glanced down at the flashlight
“Perse told her just what to do
“Give it to me, Daddy,” the shifting sand-girl
saidHer hand was still held outOnly with the
wind blowing, sometimes it was a clawEven with
sand feeding up from the beach to keep it plump,
sometimes it was a claw”Give it to me and we can
goSome things were inevitable, after all I took a step toward herAnother of
Wireman’s sayings occurred to me: In the end we
wear out our worries”All right, Miss Cookie
1104
“Cost me what?” Her voice was the sound of sand
against a windowThe grating sound of the shells
But it was also Ilse’s voi

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“You won’t have timeEleven gentlemen, including the Gentlean
Usher,
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TO THE REPLACEMENTS, everything was new and they were miserableThey seemed to be wet all the time, and no matter how they set up their pup tents, they would always blow down during the nightThey could find no way to anchor their short tent pins in the sandWhen the rain started they could discover no alternative to drawing up their feet and hoping their blankets would not become drenched againIn the middle of the night they would be awakened for guard, and would stumble through the moonlight to sit numbly in a wet sandy hole, starting at every sound
There were three hundred of them and they all felt a little patheticEverything was strangeSomehow they had not expected to do labor details in a combat zone, and they were bewildered by the contrast between the activity of the day when trucks and landing craft were constantly in motion and the quiet of evening when everything was so peacefulThen it was cooler, and out across the water the sunset was usually beautifulMen would be smoking their last cigarettes before dark or writing letters or attempting to secure their tents with a piece of driftwoodThe sounds of battle were muted at night and the distant crackling of small-arms fire, the remote echoes of fthe artillery seemed detached from themIt was a confusing period, and most of them were pleased when they were assigned to their companies

But Croft was notHe had been hoping against his better judgment that recon would be given the eight replacements they needed, and to his disgust they had been assigned only fourIt was the culmination of a series of frustrations for him since the platoon had landed on Anopopei
In the beginning, the first annoyance was that they saw no combatThe General had been forced to leave half his division behind to garrison Motome, and as a result he had brought to Anopopei only a fraction of the officers and personnel from Division HeadquartersThese men were merged with the bivouac of headquarters company of the 460th Regiment, and the Combined Headquarters was established in a coconut grove on a low sandy bluff overlooking the sea
Recon had been assigned to set it upAfter working on the beach for only two days, they were diverted to the bivouac, and spent the rest of the week in clearing the brush, laying barbed wire around the perimeter, and leveling an earthen floor for the mess tentsAfter that, their duties had been routineEach morning Croft had assembled the platoon and reported to work on the beach detail or the road gangA week went by and then another without any patrolsThe labor details irked him, and although he had employed the same efficiency with which he managed all the platoon’s activities, he was sullen, bored with the unchanging pattern of each da

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Charles was surprisingly unapologetic”I’m truly sorry that you saw
it, ScarlettFlogging’s a filthy businessBut we’re seeing things
that are even worse, and they must be stopped he declined to give
examples, but Scarlett heard from general conversation about the
violence against landlords that was cropping up all over Ireland
Fields were torched, cows had their throats cut, an agent for a big
estate near Galway was ambushed and hacked to pieces
There was hushed, anxious talk about a resurgence of the Whiteboys,
organized bands of marauders that had terrified landowners more than
a
hundred years beforeIt couldn’t be, said wiser heads
These latest incidents were scattered and sporadic and usually the
work
of known troublemakersBut they did tend to make one a bit
uncomfortable when the tenants stared in the carriage as one drove
pastScarlett forgave CharlesBut, she said, he mustn’t expect her
to forget”I’ll even take the blame for the flogging if it will make
you remember me,” he said ardentlyThen he blushed like a boy
“Dammit, I invent speeches worthy of Lord Byron when I’m in the
barracks
thinking of you, then I blurt out some rubbish when I’m in your
presenceYou know, don’t you, that I’m most abominably in love with
you?”
“Yes, I knowIt’s all right, CharlesI don’t believe I would have
iked Lord Byron, and I like you very much
“Do you, my angel? Might I hope that-”
“I don’t think so, Charles
Don’t look so desperatedon’t think so with
anybody
The sandwiches in Scarlett’s room lowly curled up their edges during
the night”It’s so good to be home! I’m afraid I’m an awful kind of
person, harrietWhen I’m away I always get an itch to be home, no
matter how much fun I’m havingBut I’ll bet you I start thinking
about the next party I’ve accepted before this week’s ou

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“I figured Suellen would have put it in a letterI’m going back to
Texas, ScarlettI made up my mind ’round about Christmas They
talked for hoursAt first she begged him to stay, until Tony’s
awkward embarrassment changed into the famous Fontaine temper
“Dammit, Scarlett, be quiet! I tried, God knows I tried, but I can’t
stick itSo you’d better quit nagging me His loud voice made the
prisms on the chandelier sway and tinkle”You could think about
Alex,” she persistedThe expression on Tony’s face made her stop
His voice was quiet when he spoke”I really did try,” he saidWhy don’t you get your fancy butler to open up
another bottle, and we’ll talk about something else
“Tell me about Texas Tony’s black eyes lit up”There’s not a fence
in a hundred miles He laughed and added, “That’s because there’s
not
much worth fencing in, unless you like dust and dried-up scrubBut
you know who you are when you’re on your own out there in all that
emptinessThere’s no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all
you’ve got leftEverything is this minute, or maybe tomorrow, not
yesterday He lifted his glass to her
“You’re looking as pretty as a picture, ScarlettRhett can’t be too
smart, or he wouldn’t leave you behindI would make advances if I
thought I could get away with it Scarlett tossed her head like a
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I pointed at Wireman’s forehead”This is your
brain,” I saidThen I pointed at my easel”This
is your brain on canvas
“It’s a joke, Wireman
“I don’t get it,” he said
viii
We ate like football players that nightI asked
Wireman if he was seeing any better and he shook
his head regretfully”Things are still mighty
black on the left side of my world, EdgarWish I
could tell you different, but I can’t
I played him Nannuzzi’s messageWireman laughed
and pumped his fistIt was hard not to be touched
by his pleasure, which bordered on glee”You’re
on your way, muchacho – this is your other life
for sureCan’t wait to see you on the cover of
Time He held his hands up, as if framing a cover
476
“There’s only one thing about it that worries me,”
I saidand then had to laughActually a lot of
things about it worried me, including the fact
that I had not the slightest idea what I was
letting myself in for”My daughter may want to
comeThe one who visited me down here
“What’s wrong with that? Most men would be
delighted to have their daughters watch them turn
proYou going to eat that last piece of lasagna?”
We split itBeing of artistic temperament, I took
the bigger ha

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“So’s the unlocked door you found when you brought
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“Are you sure you want to be here alone tonight,
Edgar?” Wireman asked”Because I’m not sure it’s
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old pictures for company”You have
succeeded in giving Wireman a first-class case of
the willies
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the sun start its long, slow decline toward the
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“Think of me as a gunslinger of the art worldI
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Jack looked at me over a fresh glass of iced tea
“You’re planning to paint?”
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the back of the other – I thought sketching would
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