![]() ![]() She was somewhere close at hand, of course her flight had disturbed the jay. Monroe-Alpha leaped to the door and looked both ways, covering the same arc with his weapon, but the Giant Forest had swallowed her. A bluejay cursed and made a flicker of blue nothing else moved. The cabin door stood open, framing a picture of sugar pines and redwoods, but no human figure. You haven’t found her because you haven’t been looking for her. No, kid, the trouble is with me, not with you. Someone who can do for you what I once did by just being herself.” “Hunnh! I don’t know where I’d find her. Somewhere there is a girl who is everything you thought I was. “What is there to do about it? Even if everything you say is true, what is there to do?” “I could make a guess. You aren’t happy and I want you to be happy.” He shrugged helplessly. ![]() ‘ My feelings have always been maternal, rather than anything else. Now the lights are out and the music has stopped and I’m no longer any help to you.” “ Don’t say that, kid.” She placed a hand on his arm. I was just a working girl, doing the job she could do best. ![]() And I was so impressed by your intellect (I still am, dear) and I was so flattered that you paid attention to me.” “Why you could have had your pick of all the braves in the country.” “They didn’t look at me the way you did. ![]()
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