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Sunday Dinner

"These are some apple fritters, Isaac!" Daniel exclai with him "More, with apple butter!"

There’s a cool wind outside and we’re sitting in the kitchen around the table in the little house with the blue door Toraveyard, and Dr Blu to put gs and bacon"

"Isaac has been feeding "

The doctor doesn’t say anything, but he ser I had toward his have softened Maybe the fire ain and I have to leave the table

Patience follows raves are ready for the ceremony

"Are you okay, Becky?" Patience asks when I wipe my eyes

"I guess I just can’t stop crying It wasn’t like I was in love with Captain Wolfe, but ere close friends and maybe I could have loved hiood spirit I can’t believe he’s gone The others I didn’t knoell, but still it’s so sad

"You should have seen the boys the day the of the blaze, Patience The Forest Ar as if the fire were a Sunday School picnic I’ the hell they would face They were just kids really I keep hearing their voices Hi-de-hi-ho Hi-de-hi-he"

The , just puts her arm around me as we stare into the e

"But you knohat really gets me? Willa I cry for her and I cry for the baby and I cry for Alfred, the wife beater, who loved his little children so h fire to save them"

May 10, 1935

The day John Teele suite like a man in a trance and was surprised when Priscilla ran up to rabbed at my coat sleeve

"Who?"

"Don’t play dumb! John Teeleman, my lover"

"How did you know?"

"When I went to the Inn to ht hiain and pulls at my lapels, her face so close I can smell the fear