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I took her down to the master bedroom while the water heated in thekettle, thinking there had to be something left of Jo's I could pop herinto, but all of the drawers in Jo's bureau were empty. Joe shook his head, it struck him funny somehow and he grinned. He wanted the boy to putthe paperwork in order, but he wanted more than that--he wanted Lance tomake sense of it. I saw what I'd come for almost at once.

But who was the other one? Why had it scattered the letters?Carla Dean. That's as likely as anything else. Green and pointing north alongthe path like a dryad in Some old legend. She read al of Dickens, Lorna Doone twice, and Poole The Harbor; that made her want to go to New York.