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Deep in the jungle on the southern fringe of Motilon territory, Holder did find one Indian who lived with an old woman, presumably his mother. His house was of hardwood poles with attic loopholes for last-ditch defense. Around it were three concentric palisades. Holder crawled through small holes in the defenses and interviewed the Indian, who was friendly enough not to shoot...
...women react to Luc's disappearance. Françoise has long since given him up for dead, but old Madame La Hourie believes that he will soon return. She hangs out his yellowing shirts to air, orders a servant to drag down from the attic the mattress on which he used to sleep. Françoise tries to humor her mother-in-law's obsession, but in the end becomes almost as obsessed herself...
...long as Uncle Joe could lift a telephone, Grundyism would still have a voice in Pennsylvania. "I'll always want to know what is going on in the attic," said Uncle...
Philip Wylie makes a good living out of his writing, and spends most of the year in Florida. But from reading his stuff, you would think he lived in a Grub Street attic, with specially trained vultures tearing at his liver...
Although the Alumni Bulletin, which has organized the drive for a permanent Center, is now consolidated, other Alumni offices are scattered about the local scene. Perched in the attic of Widener is the Alumni Directory, while the Harvard Fund occupies rooms in Wadsworth House...