“When was the last time you heard from Culligan?” “About a year ago. He wrote me a letter from Reno, claimed he’d struck it rich, that he could give me anything I wanted if I’d come back. Pete was always a dreamer. The first while after we were married, I used to believe in his dreams. But they all went blooey, one after another. I caught onto him so many years ago it isn’t funny. I’m not laughing, notice.” “What kind of dreams did he dream?” “Great big ones, the kind that never come off. Like he was going to open a chain of restaurants where food of all nations would be served. He’d hire the
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