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Elsa felt a clutch of worry “Today will be—”

“Dangerous,” Loreda said “We know Is everyone downstairs?”

“I thought we should—”

“Talk more?” Loreda said impatiently “We’ve talked plenty”

Ant jumped off the bed, landed on bare feet beside his sister “I’m the Shadow! No one can scare me”

“Okay,” Elsa said “Just stay close today I want to see you two every second”

Loreda pushed Elsa toward the door while Ant tugged on his boots, yelled, “Wait for the Shadow!”

The lobby was eot downstairs, but within athered in pods; they stacked leaflets on the table and leaned picket signs against the walls Workers from the ditch-bank camp and Welty Farms and the newly constructed Resettle anxious

Elsa saw Jeb and his children in the back corner and Ike with some of the Welty camp workers

Loreda picked up a sign that read FAIR PAY and stood by Natalia, whose sign read WORKERS UNITE

Jack stood at the front of the room “Friends and coo to the fields and sit down That is all We hope it happens all across the state on this o”

They filed out of the hotel and gathered in the street There were fewer than fifty of theot into the driver’s seat of Jack’s truck and started the engine Jack stood in the wooden-slatted bed of the truck and faced the sed by a handful of courageous people Today we fight on behalf of those who are afraid We fight for a living wage” He yelled out, “Fair pay! Fair pay!”

Loreda held her sign in the air and chanted with him “Fair pay! Fair pay!”

The truck rolled forward; the strikers followed Jack reached down for a aphone and amplified his chant “Fair pay! Fair pay!”