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I crawled into the dumbwaiter after I dropped my coat on the floor, then slid open the door just a slot Mo off her wet coat and muddy white boots
Then she appeared in the doorway, minus her coat and boots I hadn't even had the ti chair-- but she was there all right
Stiffly she rose, facinghands behind her back, the veil hiding most of her face as it hid all of her hair
So inside of me wanted to cry as I saw Mo Cindy, only Cindy's outer clothes had been taken off She was completely dry, while Mos Her flushed face looked so feverish I again wanted to cry What if God struck her dead this second? What if death by hellfires hat He really wanted?
"I'm sorry to burst in on you like this," said ht into her "But I must have a feers to est s
on? He's told s he claims you told him I don't know you, and you don't know me, so what can you tell him but lies?"
So farat Momma, then at Cindy
My grandestured toward a chair, then inclined her head as if to say she was sorry Why didn't she speak?
"What a lovely roo around at all the fine furniture There was a troubled look in her eyes, even her smile seemed forced She put Cindy on her feet and tried to hold onto her hand, but Cindy wanted to explore and see all the pretty things
"I'er than necessary," Mo an eye on Cindy, who had to touch everything "I have a severe cold and want to be ho s And doesn't respect me as his mother When you can explain, Cindy and I will leave"
Grand her eyes lowered, like she truly was so at her she was thinking this was a foreigner of solish
Momma sat down uninvited near the fire, as Cindy cas
"This is an isolated area, so when Bart comes home and tells me the lady next door has told him this and that, I knew it had to be you Who are you? Why are you trying to turn ainst me? What have I ever done to you?" Her questions went on and on, for the woman in black wouldn't speak Momma leaned forward to peer more closely at Grandmother
Was Momma suspicious already? Was she so suise of the black veil, the long loose black dress? "Coh to tell me yours"
No answer, just a shy nod of the black veiled head