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Boo confetti float down through the air

Danny is crying

Boom! White turns into red

Boooes off The sheriff, alerted to the disturbance, is co this way

"Hester!" Patience yells

"Isaac!" I try, but thered and blue lights of the squad car adding to the fireworks as the crowd rapidly scatters

"Later!" growls one of theoff The vet kicks hihs

"I can’t believe you did that!" Patience berates her husband in the backseat of the Pontiac as we drive toward home I’m at the wheel with Blum at my side "You could’ve been arrested and locked in jail or, worse yet, had to pay a big fine for disorderly conduct"

Daniel grins his lopsided grin, and Patience, I notice in the rearviewa fine would be worse than ht, my little man Dr Blum and Daddy should have controlled theoddamn that Alfred Hucknell! I can’t stand to see a man hit a woman, then he called ot into it!"

"I’ll admit when that slob stepped in my potato salad, I saw red," Patience adds

"Boom!" says Dr Bluht and the wind slams into our little house from the west I’ve been awake in bed for hours,froet toarden Daniel brings us eggs and e for Isaac’s help with the vet work, and the fish have been a great addition to our diet, but we have so little cash ar, cornmeal, and beans I am really worried about ill do this winter

The delivery job is keeping us going, but just barely There’s got to be so else I come full circle to the one place I haven’t tried yet, the CCC caer’s Pharmacy? Mr Wolfe? No, Captain Wolfe I was reluctant at first to go out to the camp, because of the distance and because it sounded like he wanted volunteers, but now it see job Really, it isn’t that far, just three or four miles past Mrs Stone’s place

Across the hall, Blu pine

I picture his body, changed with the physical work Poverty and the ht even find hiain Then thunder and lightning shake theglass The stormMr Hucknell and the fight, picturing the bruises I observed on Willa’s neck I’od’s sake, or used to be! Shouldn’t I go to Sheriff Hard?