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CRAIG’S WIFE
- similar to what’s going on in the minds of most of our neighbors these days.
Craig
- Now, just what do you mean by that?
Mrs. Craig
- They have eyes, Walter; and they use them. And I wish you’d use yours. And I also wish you’d tell me whose telephone number Levering three, one hundred is.
Craig
- Fergus Passmore, why?
Mrs. Craig
- Nothing, I was just wondering. Mrs. Harold told me you gave her that number last night in case anybody wanted you, and I was wondering where it was.
- [She moves towards the door again.
Craig
- Fergus Passmore’s, I was playing cards out there last night. I ran into him yesterday in front of the First National, and he asked me to come out there last night and play a little poker.
Mrs. Craig
- What did Billy Birkmire want you for?
Craig
- Why, a—
Mrs. Craig
- Mrs. Harold said he called you up.
Craig
- Yes, Fergus told me to get hold of him, too, and bring him out there; so I did; but he called me up later to tell me that his father had just come in from St. Paul, and he wouldn’t be able to make it. I wasn’t here when he called, so I talked to him from there.
