"You knew I wanted to." "So I got Rossman started, quite a while back.

He thought as I did, that Carl was acting mighty funny.

I was with Carl more than you was, and I could tell he had something laying heavy on his mind.

But then, the rest of us had things laying pretty heavy on our minds, too, that wasn't guilt; so there wasn't any way to tell what was bothering Carl." Lite made no attempt to answer the question she had asked.
"Now, here's this wire Rossman sent me.

You don't want to get the wrong idea, Jean, and feel too bad about this.