“Yes’m, I know that. I know you are. I read it in a piece in a magazine. Said you were one of America’s serious novelists. Yes’m, called you a serious artist of high purpose, the piece did.”
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“But, say, you know that’s awful dangerous. I might easy get killed.”
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“You expect me to? Look here, lady, I don’t know what you’re driving at.”
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“Oh, yes, o’ course, I know that. I know I got to do what you say after I signed up with you.”
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“No’m, I might not be. I know that. I might be in the draft at a trainin’ camp or somewhere back there or prob’ly I’d got exempted on account of bein’ the only one on the farm—if it wasn’t for you.”
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