on a Wednesday morning when the call come. I was slow answering it, thinking first of a comical thing to say, though I suppose it long since stopped handing anybody a laugh except me. I don’t know. I laugh at a lot of things nobody ever laughs at except her. “Do not be funny,” she said. “Just answer it.” But I seen her kind of listening out of the corner of her eye. “Triborough Bridge,” I said. “I have a collect call for Mr. Henry Wiggen from Rochester, Minnesota,” said the operator. “I do not know a soul there,” said I, “and I do not accept collect calls under any circumstances.” I used to accept a lot of collect calls until I got wise to myself. Then behind the operator I heard this voice saying, “Come on, Arthur.” Well, there is only one person in this world that calls me “Arthur,” and the first thing I thought when I heard it was I got this picture of him in jail in Rochester, Minnesota. Do not ask me why jail, but that was the picture I got, and I said to Holly, “Bruce is in jail in Minnesota,”
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