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Chapter Eleven

Brody and Lou walked through the backdoor into a dark house The poas still off Jeb, Sadie, and John all sat around the kitchen table playing cards by candlelight John had one leg resting on a pillow in a chair across from him They all looked up as the door opened

“Well, look who found their way home!” Sadie exclaimed

Lou asked, “Is everything okay? Where’s Sarah?”

“Soon as the thunder stopped, she crawled on our bed and fell asleep,” Sadie replied “Poor thing was tuckered out”

John looked up and grinned “What happened to y’all?”

“We got caught out in the rain getting in the last bed of hay It was raining too hard to run back to the house, so we stayed put We put the tarps over it just before the bottom dropped out of the sky, and then drove the truck into the south barn to keep it dry”

Lou coughed loudly “We drove the truck into the barn?” She smiled broadly

Brody pretended tolow in false dejection “Ok, Lou drove the truck into the barn…” He patted her on the shoulder “And did a good job with it, too,” he added for good measure

Brody went to the pantry and took out a loaf of bread, e and grabbed harowled as she realized they had hed

“Don’t worry I’ll make one for you, too,” he chided

Jeb rubbed his eyes “I sure aot all that hay up before the rain”

“You toldit would rain today and I didn’t believe you,” Brody replied, shaking his head

“When you get to be as old as me, boy, you’ll be able to predict