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Waco 38

The lease was up on the house, so we found the only quarters in the city that were for rent, with a [[strikethrough]] friend [[/strikethrough]] fiend for a landlady, the kind that rearranges the furniture while you are home, and reads all your letters when you are not at home, and butts in on your guests, or criticizee them. (People in the middle west found this a fault with white hired help too, so I guess "that's why darkies were born.")In- Sam and Clayt moved into a rat infested "block" which kept Morpheus at bay along with the rats. After the wing episode, Samfelt pretty low. We inveigled him into playing Five Hundred one night, and I had a chance to say something about the factory we would have some day, and that Wacos,"would be all over the world." Clayt, just then told Sam how he should[[underlined]] have played that trick, and Sam bellowed/at Clayt like a stuck bull, "When I need lessons in card playing, I'll buy a book on the subject", and then stalked off up-stairs. We went on playing, and Sam soon returned begging my pardon. Years later, he said that when I voiced his dreams so completely, it was more than he could stand, for he wanted them so terribly, to be true, but he felt that winter that maybe we were[[underlined]] "nuts." Clayt advising him about the cards was just a good exscuse to yell at someone about anything, Clayt was just the personification then of Fate. He had to laugh as he told me. We couldn't stand the landlady, though she had improved a little, when I brought[[/strikethrough]] revived her toe[[/strikethrough two words]] one day, after the lightning had knocked her off her chair into unconsciousness. The alternative, that the boys had found, was a living room, two bedrooms, a kitchen and a toilet opening off the kitchen, in a dumpy house, permeated with the smell of the barn in the rear, but since winter was coming, and windows closed, and no landlady present, we took it. George made me cover my eyes, while