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“NOTICE HOW NOBODY COMPLAINS about the heat any over breakfast at his home “Nobody talks about the s that s means a damn now All anybody cares about is the trial”

I had to s about, LJ, since nobody in this town speaks to me”

“Maybe they’re liketo a damn lawyer”

I’d been given a bedroo room attached and a small balcony whereThere were fresh sheets, starched and ironed, every day; the best sausages for breakfast, aged beef for supper

Most iuards around the house: one at the front, one in the back, and one baking on the roof At LJ’s I’d gotten the first really good night’s sleep I’d had since co back to Eudora

LJ’s wife, Allegra, bustled into the dining room

“Japheth Morgan insists on seeing you two right now,” she said

Indeed, Morgan diddirectly behind her In his hand was a fresh broadsheet, the ink still shiny At the top of the page I saw in enormous type the word EXTRA!!!

“I thought you two gentlean said

LJ shook his head “What the hell have you done now, Japheth?”

Morgan began to read aloud “The Mississippi Office of Criminal Courts has announced the venue and date for the proceedings currently known far and wide as the White Raiders Trial Following a ruling by the Mississippi Supree of venue has been denied, and the trial will be held in Eudora, Mississippi, scene of the alleged offenses”

“Well, hell, that’s no big surprise,” LJ said “We all knew nobody else wanted to grab hold of this hot horseshoe”

“I agree,” I said “It’s disappointing, but it does provide the prosecution with its first proper grounds for appeal”

“Appeal to whom?” said LJ “The Supreme Court has ruled”

“There’s another Supreton,” I said with a wink