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Thatseemed a little too long to wait, so I took the ice and put the moneythrough the mail-slot. Maria walked round to the back of his chair and put a fat arm round his neck, leaning over him with little cluck-ing noises. The phone rang; it was a long distance cal from San Antonio, sounded like Joe Wash-burn's voice. Doc said that was al mahoula and what a boy like him ought to do was go and sign up as a mechanic in this here ambulance and they'd pay fifty dol