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KNOXS NGA Avram Davidson Belle Abernathy was not Grandmother Welless favorite grandchild, in fact, GW had said semi-publicly more than once that Belle looked like a plucked chicken, and that, although perhaps Belle could not help being skinny, she neednt show it off like that. These criticisms were heard no more after the skinny chickenny Belle had whispered in Grands ear the Dreadful News; another grandchild, Lou Anne, who had married Robert Owens in A Lovely Church Wedding following upon a mere Civil Ceremony of vague circumstance, and was now expecting a child? Well, Belle hated to have to say it, but the birth was a mere five months after the church wedding, and as for the civil wedding, there had been no civil wedding. They were just shacked up, thats all, Belle said brutally. Well, figure it out. Although in her very heart of hearts Grand would have been able to forgive, had they come to her and confessed— had they? No. Tried to pull the wool over her eyes. Country going to damnation. Her own grandchild. Hippies. Probably smoked hish-hash, or whatever it was called. So, to the Quarterly Dinner at the old Welles house, who were not invited? Well, well : what to do. Bob Owens didnt care. Lou didnt care much. Lous mother cared. Lots. Only one thing to do, Lou said. Baby must be named Philander Knox. Must? asked Bob. Is Must a word to be used to fathers? Just the sort of thing he would have said. Dry sense of humor. Quiet man, and, well, small . To tell the truth. Shacking up hadnt really been his idea. Like more than a mere few men of nowadays he had come home one day to find that the lady who held the extra key had moved in, and that they were now, well, no, not shacking up