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The Turmoil

CHAPTER VIII
15/22

"He's just queer.

Sometimes he'll say something right bright, but half the time what he says is 'way off the subject, or else there isn't any sense to it at all.

For instance, the other day I heard him talkin' to one of the darkies in the hall.

The darky asked him what time he wanted the car for his drive, and anybody else in the world would have just said what time they DID want it, and that would have been all there was to it; but here's what Bibbs says, and I heard him with my own ears.

'What time do I want the car ?' he says.


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