Chinese. whether she had reason to thank him or not."Shay shay shay "Shay shay!"she said now,whenever she saw him, stacked paper for Cammy.He taught her to say thank you in Did he confuse this phenomenon with love?Not yet.He was still carrying that hat around. sideways look that made Ralph's pants bulge-lucky thing he And so to Cammy he was grateful,nothing more. His degree,his degree! li after li,by boat and by train,only to have to get himself going. complete other side of the world.Mile after mile,he'd travelled, about such things-having come,he belatedly realized,to the long nose and hairy forearms,though,she just wasn't Ralph's Chao,idiom book in hand.)With her big barbarian frame and didn't seem to be foreign students.("Fan club,"explained Old must be,as about half the men with affairs to discuss with her would help him. Ralph had noticed by then that she was pretty,or figured she Foreign Student Affairs Office,where gaily colored Cammy turned out to meet at the same time:he found his way to the two of his courses,and that for one of them,enrollment was He discovered,for instance,that he wasn't on the class list for books.All of this proved more difficult than he'd anticipated. courses,that he attend the right classes,that he buy the right He was lonely still,but it was only a mist,a weather front that More and more now,he was beginning to know what was what. Ralph nodded,beamed,situated his hat. it right?Shayshay?" "Shay shay."She lit up."Shay shay!You mean,I am saying Ralph hesitated."Shay shay. Ralph gave solemn testimony.Mr.Fitt straightened up,glar- Ralph?Wasn't I?" of Cammy choked up made Ralph's throat catch."Wasn't I, "But I w-was here.At one on th-the b-b-button." his other hand was all five hairy fingers on Cammy's neat desk. dered onto the scene,Mr.Fitt was tapping that bat on his thigh; sneering mouth;in another life he might have been a carnivorous Now Mr.Fitt was a grim man,an enforcer,with a small, her boss,Mr.Fitt. loved ballet." said Cammy. expeditious disposal of a bumblebee.And,of course,help with More favors,innocent enough-packages to the mailbox, something he couldn't catch). but nod."Good!" offered what he could on a kind of tray."Isn't that what I said?" The sound