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The Major

Equality

I asked Major Nathaniel Pea-body (USA, ret.) to accompany me to a Bucks Coun-ty country garden party. He begged off, claiming he knew nothing about gardening and had no interest in learning about it. I told him the affair had nothing to do with gardening-that it was merely an outdoor social event. I should have expected Peabody's reaction. He brought his eyebrows together, frowned ever so slightly and, without words, turned his head and stared at me for several seconds. He didn't say a word. He didn't have to.

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