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"Who’s there? Who’s walking past old Blind Bill without saying nothing?"

"It’s Memphis Campbell, sir"

Bill’s , Mr Cahty relieved it’s you and not some lou-lou come for me"

"What’s a lou-lou?"

"Old Cajun word What you call it? A bogeyeyman Just me"

Blind Bill pursed his lips like he’d taken a shot of bathtub ginCan’t you feel that on the back of your neck? The fifolet? Like the swa you"

Between the business up at the house and Blind Bill’s Cajun superstitions, Mehosts and hobgoblins "My aunt says I’m thick as a brick I’d be the last person to feel spirits "

Blind Bill turned his face toward Me there "Heardover at Floyd’s shop today Heard you used to be a healer"

"Once upon a ti spirit in you? Could you put deht?"

"I don’t have that gift anymore" Memphis was suddenly very tired, too tired to keep his words inside They tumbled out to the old man "It left me when my mother… She was real sick And I laid hands on her, and…" Mehtness "She died She died right there underI had died with her"

"That’s a real sad story, Mr Campbell," Blind Bill said after a pause

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