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understand quite why—"
"You really ought to talk to Dr. Waggoner or somebody, Ted. There's no
reason to have a dull dream like that more than once." She exhaled,
blinking. "I better get to bed now. See you tonight. Same as always."
"Haley, would you rather be a dancer than—"
"We can talk tonight or sometime." She kissed him once on the chin—
her lips were chill —and wandered away toward the ramp leading to the
bedroom area.
"Because your father called and he thinks you'd be happier if you were
still—"
Her sigh shook her slender body."He must be doing some heavy
drinking again. He always talks about my dancing when he's . . . We'll talk
tonight." She went away into the bedroom.
Ted slumped down and his chair rushed to catch him.


Chapter 2
Ted turned off the morning news. His car turned it back on.
"The Bishop of Rio," said the unattractive girl newscaster on the tiny
dash screen, "is still missing in Brazil."
Slouching down in his contour seat, Ted took a noisy sip from his cup of
vitamin-enriched beeflike broth. Outside his landcar it was all trees and
sunshine up beyond the two lanes of Stem 33 of the New England Slotway.
"The Bishop of Rio, as you know," continued the tiny red-haired
newscaster, "parachuted from a military craft over the Mato Grosso
jungles of Brazil late last week. His object was to bless government troops
and their United States Military Force advisers who are battling in that
embattled section of rebellion-rocked Brazil. So far only his miter and
some shreds of his chute have been found. Now here is Ed Skeet via
satellite from Rio."
Gentle furrows formed on Ted's forehead. Why did the Brazilian war
remind him of that stupid dream he kept having?
"This is Ed Skeet in front of the Church of Sao Norberto in downtown
Rio de Janeiro, where a special mass for the speedy location of the
much-loved Bishop of Rio is now in progress." Skeet was a tiny,
unattractive red-haired man. "United States Ambassador Plaut was
expected to appear but he has since disappeared and it is feared in
government circles that he, too, has fallen victim to the dreaded pro-Brazil
guerrillas who have unleashed a veritable reign of terror here in recent
months."
Ted switched channels.
"Here, for a change, is a piece of good news," said the black newsman
on the dash screen. "The Department of Agriculture announces the price
of soybeans has risen only 4.4 percent in the past thirty days. This new
increase, while seemingly larger than last month's figure of 2.7 percent, is
actually a sign of better times and lower prices. This according to
Presidential Publicity Chairman Bobby Bolden, who issued the statement
late yesterday from the summer White House in Barbados. Now here's
Happy the Clown with today's weather."
"Forty days of rain," said Ted as he clicked off the news once again.