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Yes, he’d heard of the White Raiders Yes, he knew thehed heavily and sent his man Luther out to hitch up his team

And now here ere, bu our way out to Abrahaether on the back bench were Moody, Luther Cosgrove, and his brother Conrad

Luther and Conrad were LJ’s assistants—“my man Friday and his brother Saturday,” he joked—on call twenty-four hours a day to do whatever the boss wanted done They drove Allegra Stringer on her errands They ran packages to McCoht into line,” as he put it, it was the Cosgroves who did the bringing

“What we’re doing here is extremely foolish,” said LJ “You know that?”

“I know that,” I said “But if we don’t help these people, nobody will And they’re all going to die”

LJ shrugged and said, “Well, we can’t have that This has to stop soht now”

Chapter 86

POOR ABRAHAM WAS in the parlor of his house, sleeping fitfully e arrived Half a dozen h they had only a couple of rifles “Guarding Father Abraham,” that’s what they called it Abraham was that beloved here

As it turned out, the White Raiders didn’t co Father Abraha, LJ and I took our places on the porch We’d been friends for a long tiotten better and better with the years, the exact opposite of Jacob

I arranged the otherhis lines of defense I put two of the new men on the roof, despite Moody’s protest that the sheets of tin were so old and rusty that they would alh

Then LJ dispatched five of the e of the woods

“Stay awake Stay alert,” he told everyone “Don’t leave your post for any damn reason If you need to pee, just do it in place”

As the second night watch began, our fears were as high as on the first

Around eleven LJ and I decided a finger of sour-e off After ht Moody came out with a fresh pot She told me Abraham ake

Through theI saw him propped up on his pillow Between his hands he held a bowl of stea liquid, which he raised to his lips