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busy shopping and no doubt also shedding his skin for a new set of scales—wasn’t due to slither back to Palazzo Rospo for hours yet, but Fric remained eager to get out of the chef’s domain.Using the service elevator would be too dangerous because it was in the west wing, not far from Mr. Truman’s apartment. He hoped to avoid the security chief. The public elevator, toward the east end of the north hall, would be safer.In sudden guilty haste, he pushed the ?”Frowning at the items on the cart, Mr. Truman said, “I’d like to talk to you a little more about cart through the swinging door into the hallway, turned right, and nearly collided with Mr. Truman.“You’re up early this morning, Fric.”“Ummm, things to do, things, you know, ummm,” Fric muttered, silently cursing himself for sounding devious, guilty, and more than a little like an absentminded Hobbit.“What’s all this?” Mr. Truman asked, indicating the stuff piled on the cart.[343] “Yeah. For my room, things I need, you know, stuff for my room.” Fric shamed himself; he was pathetic, transparent, stupid. “Just some soda and snacks and stuff,” he added, and he wanted to smack himself upside the head.“You’re going to put one of the maids out of work.”“Gee, no, that’s not what I want.” Shut up, shut up, shut up! he warned himself, yet he couldn’t resist adding, “I like the maids.”“Are you all right, Fric?”“Sure. I’m all right. Are you all right
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