Thanks! Well, Brad's gone."
"Gone?"
"He cracked me good and hard, that's what he did. I told you he
wouldn't be held down long. He's in no mood to be kind to them that
are trying to be kind to him. He's past all that. He means business,
Brad does. This morning about six he got up. I was watchin' him. He
said he was going over to see his wife. He said he wanted to see her
before Christine was awake, or out of bed. I told him they wouldn't
let him in at that time of day. He said he'd get in or know the reason
why. Then he opened up on me about all of us trying to manage his
affairs for him. I tried to quiet him. But the devil of it was he was
quiet enough. He was _too_ quiet. It looked bad. When he started
for the door I took hold of him. He--well, he shoved me off. When I
jumped in front of the door he picked up a chair and let me have it
over the head. I didn't know anything for a long time. When I came to
he was gone. Jimmie Parsons, who was in the room with us all the time,
also tried to stop him after he biffed me. Jimmie's got two wonderful
black eyes as a result."
"The man must be insane!" cried David, aghast.
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