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Chapters 7-9 Summary

At Ketcham's place, a guy named Ben asks Hart if he wants some Benzedrine or benny, but Hart declines, saying the drug makes him angry. He talks to Paul about how he prefers marijuana, because it gives him "a perspective on everything." Hart says he started cars when he was taking Benzedrine two years earlier. He estimates he stole a hundred cars in six months, quitting only after he almost got caught. Stofsky calls from a new job as a night boy at Associated Press, and Hart, Dinah, Pasternak, Paul, Kathryn, and Ed Schindel go to pick him up. They stop for gas, which Ed steals, to Kathryn's dismay. They get Stofsky and everyone goes to the Hobbes' apartment, where Kathryn talks to Dinah about how wild Hart is, and Dinah replies that she knows, but it's okay now that she is no longer married to him, and doesn't have...
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