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Daniel cuts short the chitchat "We want you to draw up adoption papers for four children and we need the on, boys? This is hty short order My secretary took the day off to see her sister in Torrington"

"I can type," I interject (IThe last ti drool off my chin)

"Well, well, Dr Blu You can type, huh? So what’s the deal?"

"The Hucknell children? You heard about them?"

Linkous whistles "Everyone has It was in the paper A tragedy Real sha as well as can be expected, but we just heard that the girls are due to be picked up by the Children’s Home Society out of Charleston today and then placed in four different foster ho story short

"At the funeral the other day, the three of us had discussed taking the sisters, but we didn’t know things wereso fast We need to et here"

Linkous whistles again "Any next of kin? We’d have to get approval"

"None," adds Maddock "Judge Wade investigated He’s the one that got in touch with the Children’s Hoo"

"So do you know these children, any of you? Do your wives agree? Wo time," I put in "Nurse Myers and I were friends with their ularly" I don’t mention that I haven’t really talked about the adoption with Becky, and before Linkous can sense ain

"Patience and I will take the twins, Sunny and Sue We have an extra bedroom The Maddocks will take Sonya, and Blum will take Sally, the oldest She has a bond with him We all live within two miles of one another so the sisters will see each other every day"

"Have you talked to Judge Wade about this?"

"Yes," says Daniel "He called us this ood to me, except Blum you haven’t exactly been a model citizen for the past year Do you even have a job?"

"He works asat the White Rock CCC camp as their part-tihty helpful the night of the wildfire That has to count for soet to work I’ll look up the for, Bluirls with carbon paper behind it This has to be perfect, so don’t make any mistakes If you erase on the carbon it looks like shit"

Maddock and Hester go on to Judge Wade’s, and I sit down at the Reton Three hours later, the other two are back and I’m on the last line of the third forers Daniel looks at his watch

"Judge Wade’s fine with it, but we have to be in court in an hour Mrs Wade put in a good word for you, Bluo"