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request the pleasure of your company at supper

on Saturday, July fourteenth,

nineteen hundred and six

at eight o’clock in the evening

Number One Summit Square

Eudora, Mississippi

RSVP

What was this world co to? A fancy-dress invite from

L J Stringer, of all people!

It was hard to believe that the sweet, kindly boy hoood portion of my childhood was now in such a lofty position that he could send out invitations engraved on thick vellum And that on his way to manhood, LJ had invented a hth the time it took four men to do the job

The Stringer Auto

I eased into a rear table at the Slide Inn Café I ordered coffee and a big breakfast of grits and eggs, patty sausage and biscuits I thought about L J Stringer for a le letter from home

Why hadn’t Meg written? I didn’t really need to ask ry—why hadn’t she allowed the girls to write?

I decided to detour by the post office just to e Everett Corbett’s home

Meantiood chicory coffee and tore open the last of my three letters, the one without a return address