Excerpt from The Boy Grew Older He shoved the check over to the banker and was out of the room before anybody could say anything.

He thought that the banker said, Congratula tions, as he slammed the door behind him, but he could not be certain of it.

All the way up in the taxi he worried. The hospital was half a mile away. He Wished that the nurse had said, A fine boy, but he remembered it was just, Your son was born ten minutes ago.

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