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"Whipped you? With a belt?"

"No, a whip It tore up ot it even worse than I did"

"What did he do that for?"

"Mr Pryde saw theuy was a real hard-ass"

Sauess he was"

Uncle Hector pressed her tighter against him and then looked in her eye "Lucy, I pro like that to you I'd never hurt you"

"I know, Uncle Hector" They sat in silence for a couple of o back home, can Prudence come with us?"

"I don't knoeetheart That will be up to Prudence And Miss Brigha the other children over to theseparated"

"Oh, I see" Saether for over three hundred years now, even if they didn't remember it "But if they say yes, can she come with us? Please? She's my best friend in the whole world and I don't want to lose her"

Uncle Hector thought it over for a few arette away and nodded "Sure, kiddo She can come if she wants"

"Thank you, Uncle Hector!" Saret it"

"But listen, it ht be hard for her to s she doesn't understand, even ht of Prudence's rejection of girls wearing pants or cutting their hair short; she would have a lot to adapt to on the ht" They lapsed into silence again Samantha looked up at the church and then sham ant to come?"

"I don't know Maybe"

"She really likes you"

"You think so?"

Saets when she's around you? And the way she was leaning against you earlier, it was like a dog irl who's spent five years in this religious couess it's just old memories Did I have any boyfriends on the mainland?"

"Not that I know of, but there were soroup, the Backstreet Boys You had their posters all over your rooet which one was your favorite, but whenever ere on the boat, you'd make me play their CDs Made me want to throw the damned stereo overboard"