THE GOOD WORD ACCORDING TO · THE ULTRA-HARRIER
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Harry disappears for forty daysThe followers hear interesting news
Chapter 38
And so it happened that one night in early spring,
2All of the followers decided to go to Atlantic City,
3Which was a ghetto on the iNew Jersey shore,
4Where there were quite a lot of sleazy nightclubs,
5On the boardwalk,
6By the ocean,
7Which made the followers think it might be an amusing place to visit,
8For a change.
9And they borrowed one of Harry’s Silver Clouds,
10And rode through an awful jwasteland all the way to Atlantic City,
11Where by accident they ran into an uncle of one of the followers,
12Who was an kItalian,
13And very hospitable to his nephew’s friends,
14Which maybe explains why all the followers got pretty drunk,
15And ate and drank lots of great Italian consumables,
16Until the conversation finally turned to Harry,
17Who the uncle had heard of,
18For some reason,
19And was terribly lsympathetic when he heard how badly the followers were being treated,
20Especially when he heard about how Harry had disappeared,
21aWhile visiting the docks.
22After more drinks, the uncle started talking about South America,
23And how certain btwo-bit upstart competitors were trying to upstage him,
24cVia South America,
25dAnd how very unfortunate that would be for such competitors,
26Especially if they tried anything in Philadelphia,
27Where he owned all the judges,
28Which was all very interesting news to the followers,
29And maybe explains why they stayed all night with the efriendly uncle,
30And let his bodyguards drive them back to Philadelphia in the morning,
31So that he could borrow Harry’s fSilver Cloud,
32For a day or two.
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