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I shuffled the pad with Charley the jockey on it
to the bottom and went back to the picture of the
kitchen: Nan Melda looking down, the little girl
looking up with her finger on her lips - Shhhh! -
and the doll bearing silent witness from her place
against the breadbox"Do you see it?" I asked
Wireman"Do you understand?"
"Sort of
"Sugar-candy was mos'ly done, once she was out,"
Noveen said"Thass what it come down to
"Maybe at first Melda thought Shannington was
moving the lawn jockey around as a kind of joke -
because he knew the three little girls were scared
of it
"Why in God's name would they be?" Wireman asked
Noveen said nothing, so I passed my missing |
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