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Their Brothers’ Keepers
"No,no,that’snotall!It’smosturgentthatwediscussthesituationandarriveatsomedecision,which—"
Shelistenedblanklytothenextstreamofgeneralities,wonderingabouthismotive.Hewasmarkingtime,yethewasn’t,notfully;shefeltcertainthathewasholdingherhereforsomespecificpurposeand,simultaneously,thathewasholdingherforthemeresakeofherpresence.
Itwassomenewtraitinhim,whichshehadbeguntonoticeeversinceCherryl’sdeath.Hehadcomerunningtoher,rushing,unannounced,intoherapartmentontheeveningofthedaywhenCherryl’sbodyhadbeenfoundandthestoryofhersuicidehadfilledthenewspapers,givenbysomesocialworkerwhohadwitnessedit;"aninexplicablesuicide,"thenewspapershadcalledit,unabletodiscoveranymotive."Itwasn’tmyfault!"hehadscreamedtoher,asifsheweretheonlyjudgewhomhehadtoplacate."I’mnottoblameforit!I’mnottoblame!"Hehadbeenshakingwithterror—yetshehadcaughtafewglancesthrownshrewdlyatherface,whichhadseemed,inconceivably,toconveyatouchoftriumph."Getoutofhere,Jim,"wasallshehadsaidtohim.
