Smiley Tie - 6

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"Then you have that to shore you up, whatever comes. That and the fact that you kept those innocent children out of all of this. You are a good man, Anton." Her face echoed her approval, and it was a great comfort.

"Thank you for delivering his message, Gert. I'll be certain he knows that you did." Anton headed, not for the outside door, but for the one that headed back into the ballroom.

"Where are you going, young man?"

"To talk to my father."

Before she could start to talk him out of it, he was through the swinging door and headed down the hall.

"Maybe you'd have stood taller in a pair of shoes!" she called from the kitchen.

Anton looked down at this smiley socks decided they would give him more courage than his shoes would. Besides if he went back for the shoes, he might just lose his nerve.
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