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- 4885 hall with stones on the side that they'd taken right out of this Pharaoh's tomb and all. It
4886 was pretty spooky, and you could tell the two hot-shots I was with weren't enjoying it too
4887 much. They stuck close as hell to me, and the one that didn't talk at all practically was
4888 holding onto my sleeve. "Let's go," he said to his brother. "I seen 'em awreddy. C'mon,
4889 hey." He turned around and beat it.
4890 "He's got a yella streak a mile wide," the other one said. "So long!" He beat it too.
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4891 I was the only one left in the tomb then. I sort of liked it, in a way. It was so nice
4892 and peaceful. Then, all of a sudden, you'd never guess what I saw on the wall. Another
4893 "Fuck you." It was written with a red crayon or something, right under the glass part of
4894 the wall, under the stones.
4895 That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful,
4896 because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not
4897 looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose. Try it
4898 sometime. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a
4899 tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and
4900 what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "Fuck you." I'm positive, in fact.
4901 After I came out of the place where the mummies were, I had to go to the
4902 bathroom. I sort of had diarrhea, if you want to know the truth. I didn't mind the diarrhea
4903 part too much, but something else happened. When I was coming out of the can, right
4904 before I got to the door, I sort of passed out. I was lucky, though. I mean I could've killed
4905 myself when I hit the floor, but all I did was sort of land on my side. it was a funny thing,
4906 though. I felt better after I passed out. I really did. My arm sort of hurt, from where I fell,
4907 but I didn't feel so damn dizzy any more.
4908 It was about ten after twelve or so then, and so I went back and stood by the door
4909 and waited for old Phoebe. I thought how it might be the last time I'd ever see her again.
4910 Any of my relatives, I mean. I figured I'd probably see them again, but not for years. I
4911 might come home when I was about thirty-five. I figured, in case somebody got sick and
4912 wanted to see me before they died, but that would be the only reason I'd leave my cabin
4913 and come back. I even started picturing how it would be when I came back. I knew my
4914 mother'd get nervous as hell and start to cry and beg me to stay home and not go back to
4915 my cabin, but I'd go anyway. I'd be casual as hell. I'd make her calm down, and then I'd
4916 go over to the other side of the living room and take out this cigarette case and light a
4917 cigarette, cool as all hell. I'd ask them all to visit me sometime if they wanted to, but I
4918 wouldn't insist or anything. What I'd do, I'd let old Phoebe come out and visit me in the
4919 summertime and on Christmas vacation and Easter vacation. And I'd let D.B. come out
4920 and visit me for a while if he wanted a nice, quiet place for his writing, but he couldn't
4921 write any movies in my cabin, only stories and books. I'd have this rule that nobody could
4922 do anything phony when they visited me. If anybody tried to do anything phony, they
4923 couldn't stay.
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.
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