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We're all very proud of you, Ben.As a graduation present, Ben has been given a shiny red Alfa Romeo.Another family friend congratulates him: "Hey, here's the track star.How are you track star?" More guests make a fuss over him and offer congratulatory kisses:Guests: We're all so proud of you, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud.She asks that he reverse a large mirror on the wall and rushes to hide when the lights are turned on.They were all so...what shall I say? Intellectually devised....Every one had a definite central heme.Brains, you know....Most prologues, Mr.Kent, are utterly commonplace.But yours, yours have meaning.What was it Ruskin said? 'That intangible something.'" Nan interrupted, asking: "What ever happened to that boyfriend of yours? Is he still a bootlegger?" Vivian's comment about a book titled 'Slavery in Old Africa' inspired another 'unit' idea in Kent - an astonishingly racist premise:"I can see it now.Unless he's peddlin' dynamite.Sam: Maybe he's a cop or somethin'.Doc: Ever see a cop with a stiff arm?Sam: Maybe his arm's all right.Maybe he's just hangin' onto something tight in his pocket.Doc: Like what? A pistol? A stick of TNT so he can blow up the whole mangy, miserable town.Macreedy leaves the hotel to walk toward the town's garage.Parked outside the hotel is a wood-paneled station wagon with a bloody, eight-point buck from a recent hunting trip strapped o the left front fender.Nearby, the eavesdropping Lois also alerted the ship's sentry who attacked her when she took its picture.