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Ikey opened it very slowly,as though it might explode in his hands, and carefullyunfolded the note. For a month or two after it happened he went around feeling nervous, expecting life to change in some bold way. :*11 'have a boy take you in 'orse and trap,' Maggie him. No need to now, Augustus said.