“Listen, Jason,” she says. “Dont lie to me now. About her. I wont ask to see anything. If that isn’t enough, I’ll send more each month. Just promise that she’ll——that she—You can do that. Things for her. Be kind to her. Little things that I cant, they wont let.… But you wont. You never had a drop of warm blood in you. Listen,” she says. “If you’ll get Mother to let me have her back, I’ll give you a thousand dollars.” “You haven’t got a thousand dollars,” I says. “I know you’re lying now.” “Yes I have. I will have. I can get it.” “And I know how you’ll get it,” I says. “You’ll get it the same
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