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- 4924 All of a sudden I looked at the clock in the checkroom and it was twenty-five of
4925 one. I began to get scared that maybe that old lady in the school had told that other lady
4926 not to give old Phoebe my message. I began to get scared that maybe she'd told her to
4927 burn it or something. It really scared hell out of me. I really wanted to see old Phoebe
4928 before I hit the road. I mean I had her Christmas dough and all.
4929 Finally, I saw her. I saw her through the glass part of the door. The reason I saw
4930 her, she had my crazy hunting hat on--you could see that hat about ten miles away.
4931 I went out the doors and started down these stone stairs to meet her. The thing I
4932 couldn't understand, she had this big suitcase with her. She was just coming across Fifth
4933 Avenue, and she was dragging this goddam big suitcase with her. She could hardly drag
4934 it. When I got up closer, I saw it was my old suitcase, the one I used to use when I was at
4935 Whooton. I couldn't figure out what the hell she was doing with it. "Hi," she said when
4936 she got up close. She was all out of breath from that crazy suitcase.
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4937 "I thought maybe you weren't coming," I said. "What the hell's in that bag? I don't
4938 need anything. I'm just going the way I am. I'm not even taking the bags I got at the
4939 station. What the hellya got in there?"
4940 She put the suitcase down. "My clothes," she said. "I'm going with you. Can I?
4941 Okay?"
4942 "What?" I said. I almost fell over when she said that. I swear to God I did. I got
4943 sort of dizzy and I thought I was going to pass out or something again.
4944 "I took them down the back elevator so Charlene wouldn't see me. It isn't heavy.
4945 All I have in it is two dresses and my moccasins and my underwear and socks and some
4946 other things. Feel it. It isn't heavy. Feel it once. . . Can't I go with you? Holden? Can't I?
4947 Please."
4948 "No. Shut up."
4949 I thought I was going to pass out cold. I mean I didn't mean to tell her to shut up
4950 and all, but I thought I was going to pass out again.
4951 "Why can't I? Please, Holden! I won't do anything-- I'll just go with you, that's all!
4952 I won't even take my clothes with me if you don't want me to--I'll just take my--"
4953 "You can't take anything. Because you're not going. I'm going alone. So shut up."
4954 "Please, Holden. Please let me go. I'll be very, very, very--You won't even--"
4955 "You're not going. Now, shut up! Gimme that bag," I said. I took the bag off her. I
4956 was almost all set to hit her, I thought I was going to smack her for a second. I really did.
4957 She started to cry.
4958 "I thought you were supposed to be in a play at school and all I thought you were
4959 supposed to be Benedict Arnold in that play and all," I said. I said it very nasty.
4960 "Whuddaya want to do? Not be in the play, for God's sake?" That made her cry even
4961 harder. I was glad. All of a sudden I wanted her to cry till her eyes practically dropped
4962 out. I almost hated her. I think I hated her most because she wouldn't be in that play any
4963 more if she went away with me.
4964 "Come on," I said. I started up the steps to the museum again. I figured what I'd
4965 do was, I'd check the crazy suitcase she'd brought in the checkroom, andy then she could
4966 get it again at three o'clock, after school. I knew she couldn't take it back to school with
4967 her. "Come on, now," I said.
4968 She didn't go up the steps with me, though. She wouldn't come with me. I went up
4969 anyway, though, and brought the bag in the checkroom and checked it, and then I came
4970 down again. She was still standing there on the sidewalk, but she turned her back on me
4971 when I came up to her. She can do that. She can turn her back on you when she feels like
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