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The first basket went, by Johnny's request, to Sidney Page

"I want her to have it," he said "She got corns on her fingers fro me when I ca a most co," said Johnny "I' You give her the basket"

K looked up then, and surprised Johnny's secret in his face

"Ah!" he said

"If I'd squealed she'd have finishedin 240 these days"

"I'll not tell, or make it uncomfortable for you What do you know?"

Johnny looked around The as in the somnolence of mid-afternoon

The nearest patient, aheavily

"It was the dark-eyed one that changed the medicine on me," he said "The

one with the heels that were always tapping around, waking me up She did

it; I saw her"

After all, it was only what K had suspected before But a sense of

ier to Sidney obsessed him If Carlotta would do that, what

would she do when she learned of the engagement? And he had known her

before He believed she was totally unscrupulous The odd coincidence of