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wet and soft, not like the hard hands of most the men she had picked up.
"Why . . . why . . . didn't you go after him?"
All Cappy had to do now was set the hook. "Because of my mother; she isn't well. She had such high hopes for me. It would have killed her if she knew Charlie ran off without . . . " she threw in a few more sobs, " . . . without marrying me."
Cappy s story had lost all semblance of logic but Harvey didn't seem to notice. She was, plain and simple, a woman in distress, and in Loo-e-ville, where he was brought up, men didn't treat ladies like that.
"I've got a job. It isn't much, but it's a job. I thought Charlie would help me; he knew how sick my mother was. He promised me he would take her to Arizona where the climate would be good for her health."
There was a funny little furrow in Harvey's ponderously thick brow, like just maybe he had heard of Arizona before.
Now Cappy was on a roll. The lines were coming back to her. She found the routine easier to slip back into. Her routine was a masterpiece, interspersed with just the right number of carefully rehearsed sobs, expressions of dismay and tears of disappointment.
Harvey reached out again and captured her trembling hand. His flabby face mirrored his

 
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