They staid in the
water a long time, and the girl with the Figure was always
crawling out on the dock and then diving in to show off. Leila
and the rest got sick of her actions and came in to Lunch. They
called up to me, but I said I was not hungry.
"I don't know what's come over Bab," I heard Sis say to
Carter Brooks. "She's crazy, I think."
"She's seventeen," he said. "That's all. They get over it
mostly, but she has it hard."
I lothed him.
Pretty soon the other crowd came up, and I could see every
one knew the joke but Mr. Beecher. They all scuttled into their
doorways, and Mr. Patten waited till Mr. Beecher was inside and
had thrown out the shirt of his bathing Suit. Then he locked the
door from the outside.
There was a silence for a minute. Then Mr. Beecher said in
a terrable voice.
"So that's the Game, is it?"
"Now listen, Reg," Mr. Patten said, in a soothing voice.
"I've tried everything but Force, and now I'm driven to that.
I've got to have that third Act. The company's got the first two
acts well under way, and I'm getting wires about every hour.
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