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anyplace

 before." He looked

like he was going to cry.

"That place bites the root anyway. Will Darnell's an asshole."

"I guess it would be stupid to try and keep it there anymore anyway," he said.

"Even if Darnell lets me come back, Repperton's there. I'd fight him again—"

I started to hum the theme from 

Rocky.

"Yeah,  fuck  you  and  the  Cayuse  you  rode  in  on,  Range  Rider,"  he  said,

smiling a little. "I really 

would

 fight him. But Repperton might take after her

with that jackhandle again when I wasn't there. I don't think Darnell would

stop him if he did."

I didn't answer and maybe Arnie thought that meant I agreed with him, but I

didn't.  I  didn't  think  his  old  rustbucket  Plymouth  Fury  was  the  main  target.

And if Repperton felt that he couldn't accomplish the demolition of the main

target by himself, he would simply get by with a little help from his friends—

Don  Vandenberg,  Moochie  Welch, 

et  al.

  Get  on  your  motorhuckle  boots,

boys, we got plenty good stompin tonight.

It occurred to me that they could kill him. Not just kill him but really, honest-

to-Christ kill him. Guys like that sometimes did. Things just went a little too

far and some kid wound up dead. You read about it in the paper sometimes.

"—keep her?"

"Huh?" I hadn't followed that. Up ahead, Arnie s house was in view.

"I asked if you had any ideas about where I could keep her."

The  car,  the  car,  the  car  that's  all  he  could  talk  about.  He  was  starting  to

sound like a broken record. And, worse, it was always her, her, her. He was



bright enough to see his growing obsession with her—

it

, damn it, 



it

—but he


wasn't picking it up. He wasn't picking it up at all.

"Arnie," I said. "My man. You've got more important things to worry about

than where to keep the car. I want to know where you're going to keep 

you."

"Huh? What are, you talking about?"

"I'm asking you what you're going to do if Buddy and Buddy's buddies decide

they want to put you in traction."

His  face  suddenly  grew  wise—it  grew  wise  so  suddenly  that  it  was

frightening to watch. It was wise and helpless and enduring. It was a face I

recognized from the news when I was only eight or nine or so, the face of all

those  soldiers  in  black  pajamas  who  had  kicked  the  living  shit  out  of  the

best-equipped and best-supported army in the world.

"Dennis," he said, "I'll do what I can."





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