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JULY JOHNSON HAD BEEN RAISED not to complain, so he didn't complain, but the truth of the matter was, it had been the hardest year of his life: a year in which so many things went wrong that it was hard to know which trouble to pay attention to at any given time.
His deputy, Roscoe Brown-forty-eight years of age to July's twenty-four-assured him cheerfully that the increase in trouble was something he had better get used to.