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hands and pounded each other on the back.

"Hey, you're looking great, Conn!" They all told him that; he'd begin to
believe it pretty soon. "Sorry I couldn't make the party, but somebody
had to sit on the lid here, and Jerry Rivas and I cut cards for it and
Jerry won."

"You didn't tell me Anse was with you," he reproached his father. Rodney
Maxwell said he'd been saving that for a surprise.

When Conn asked Anse what was the matter with the bank, he said: "For
the birds; I'd as soon count sheets of[Pg 45] toilet paper as this stuff
we're using for money. Sooner. Toilet paper can be used for something,
and this paper money's too stiff. Maybe some of this stuff we're digging
here isn't worth much, but at least it's real."

That was something else the Maxwell Plan would have to take care of.