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- 1583 "I'll say hello to Eddie for you."
1584 "Willya do that? I hope you enjoy your stay in New York. It's a grand place."
1585 "I know it is. Thanks. Good night," I said. Then I hung up.
1586 Boy, I really fouled that up. I should've at least made it for cocktails or something.
1587 10
1588 It was still pretty early. I'm not sure what time it was, but it wasn't too late. The
1589 one thing I hate to do is go to bed when I'm not even tired. So I opened my suitcases and
1590 took out a clean shirt, and then I went in the bathroom and washed and changed my shirt.
1591 What I thought I'd do, I thought I'd go downstairs and see what the hell was going on in
1592 the Lavender Room. They had this night club, the Lavender Room, in the hotel.
1593 While I was changing my shirt, I damn near gave my kid sister Phoebe a buzz,
1594 though. I certainly felt like talking to her on the phone. Somebody with sense and all. But
1595 I couldn't take a chance on giving her a buzz, because she was only a little kid and she
1596 wouldn't have been up, let alone anywhere near the phone. I thought of maybe hanging
1597 up if my parents answered, but that wouldn't've worked, either. They'd know it was me.
1598 My mother always knows it's me. She's psychic. But I certainly wouldn't have minded
1599 shooting the crap with old Phoebe for a while.
1600 You should see her. You never saw a little kid so pretty and smart in your whole
1601 life. She's really smart. I mean she's had all A's ever since she started school. As a matter
1602 of fact, I'm the only dumb one in the family. My brother D.B.'s a writer and all, and my
1603 brother Allie, the one that died, that I told you about, was a wizard. I'm the only really
1604 dumb one. But you ought to see old Phoebe. She has this sort of red hair, a little bit like
1605 Allie's was, that's very short in the summertime. In the summertime, she sticks it behind
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1606 her ears. She has nice, pretty little ears. In the wintertime, it's pretty long, though.
1607 Sometimes my mother braids it and sometimes she doesn't. It's really nice, though. She's
1608 only ten. She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her
1609 once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and
1610 that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her. I mean if you tell old Phoebe
1611 something, she knows exactly what the hell you're talking about. I mean you can even
1612 take her anywhere with you. If you take her to a lousy movie, for instance, she knows it's
1613 a lousy movie. If you take her to a pretty good movie, she knows it's a pretty good movie.
1614 D.B. and I took her to see this French movie, The Baker's Wife, with Raimu in it. It killed
1615 her. Her favorite is The 39 Steps, though, with Robert Donat. She knows the whole
1616 goddam movie by heart, because I've taken her to see it about ten times. When old Donat
1617 comes up to this Scotch farmhouse, for instance, when he's running away from the cops
1618 and all, Phoebe'll say right out loud in the movie--right when the Scotch guy in the
1619 picture says it--"Can you eat the herring?" She knows all the talk by heart. And when this
1620 professor in the picture, that's really a German spy, sticks up his little finger with part of
1621 the middle joint missing, to show Robert Donat, old Phoebe beats him to it--she holds up
1622 her little finger at me in the dark, right in front of my face. She's all right. You'd like her.
1623 The only trouble is, she's a little too affectionate sometimes. She's very emotional, for a
1624 child. She really is. Something else she does, she writes books all the time. Only, she
1625 doesn't finish them. They're all about some kid named Hazel Weatherfield--only old
1626 Phoebe spells it "Hazle." Old Hazle Weatherfield is a girl detective. She's supposed to be
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