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Chapter 13: What Pauline Wants
Soren did up the last button, found it was already done, and undid it so he could do it up again.
I slid off the steel table with the dignity of a woman getting down from a horse.
"Ms. Hoyt," I said.
"Pauline," said Pauline Hoyt. "I think we're past Ms."
She came in, shut the alley door behind her and sat down on the cot.
The cot made its noise.
"That is a very loud cot," she said.
"We know," said Soren.
She turned her notebook around and held it up.
The first page held a date and one word, written the day she arrived and underlined twice.
Honest.
"That's what I wrote after my first bite of your kringle, Lotte," said Pauline. "Soren, yours earned the same word on Tuesday."
"Thank you," said Soren faintly.
"It's a hard word to earn in a town like this one."
She closed the notebook and rested both hands on it.
"My mother worked the pharmacy register," she said. "When the pharmacy needed a loan, the Feud Tour paid it."
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