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They glared at each other It struck ument before, when I was nowhere around It also reood men and women in the South, even here in Eudora

I was about to say soirl walked in bearing a large round cake, frosted white, on a silver platter

Nottinghabird cake?”

“Of course it is I had the off to Jackson next week We’ll ht”

Soh ht in my seat

As she said these words to her husband, I felt Elizabeth’s hand gently pat the inside of h

“Ben,” she said, “you must try the cake”

Chapter 54

“NO, SIR”

“No, not today, Mr Corbett”

“No, sir, nothing today”

Maybelle always had the same answer to the question I asked her at least once every day First I would check the table in the front hall, then I’d convinceit from me because she kne anxiously I waited

I would go ask her, and she would say, “No, sir”

It had been ined that e when she read it and that she would write back immediately

That letter had not yet arrived