Part IV
You Know How Relatives Are
Well, by golly, it's good to be back. How'd everything go, Mame? Say, how's your brake been acting? That's fine.
Huh? Yuh, sure, I'm fairly certain Walt'll make the loan. But you know how relatives are. I could see he was crazy to make a loan on security like I can give him, but he tried to pretend like he was holding off, and I had to sit around a whole evening listening to his wife and him chewing the rag.
God, how that woman does talk, and say, Walt ain't much better. He insisted on telling me all about a fishing trip he'd made, and of course I wasn't interested—
And curious—say, I never did run into anybody as inquisitive as Walt is, but you know how relatives are. My God, the questions he asked and
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