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Maybe that was why he sometimes seemed to be all by himself . He was beginning to get lost in an _ In _ -- _ Out _ . Faintly he could hear Mrs. Cadara crying -- Joe Cadara was in the sea , and faintly he heard his wife saying , `` I suppose Agnes Cadara could wear Myrtie 's shoes , only -- the way things are , seems Myrtie 's got to wear out her _ own _ shoes . '' Next day when he came home at noon -- he was at work then helping Ed . Davis put a new coat on Still 's store -- he found his two boys -- the boys were younger than Myrtie -- pressed against the picket fence that separated Doanes from Cadaras . `` What those kids up to ? '' he asked his wife , while he washed up for dinner .