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ISBN-13: 9780307418678

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I’m afraid they’ll have to wait until Mr. ” Lila demands. ” Cantrell smiles, hoping to lighten things up a bit. ” “Well, I mind,” Lila shoots back. “I mind this whole thing. ” “Oh, Lila,”—Cantrell gently shakes his aching head—“the time for minding Kyle DeLuth is long past. ” 10 Daniel sits on the hard wooden bench in front of ol’ Miss May’s desk sucking the last sliver of his peppermint candy. ’Becca’s already finished hers and is casting big fawn eyes at Miss May in hopes of another. That’s what ’Becca’s always reminded him of—a fawn who looks at you, shy and trusting, with those round brown eyes and long black lashes above that nose that’s big for a girl but just the right size for a half-grown fawn.

Daniel the Lone Ranger he’d become, laying low behind a mask of amused mockery he didn’t really feel, feeding the hungry rumble of his homesickness constant helpings of memory and imagination. Outside, the Sheriff’s door slams shut. He’s got a fancier car than ol’ Jim, I’ll give ’im that. And, Daniel notes as the big man hitches up his broad belt, an even fancier gun. The sight of the Sheriff’s pistol with its pearly white handle sends the boy’s mind wandering. In his lap, his palms fold, one up, one down, several inches apart.

Let him sweet-talk her into staying here year ’round? Let him borrow all that money from Papa to canal the swampland, develop home sites on Lake Esther’s mosquito side? Oh, they’d had fun in the early days, before Clay was born. But when the bust came to Florida in 1926, Clay was no more than five, Cash lit out like a Canada goose, without so much as a squawk good-bye. Papa had been there for her then, to make everything okay. But, three years later, on Black Thursday ’29, her poor papa had died, having failed to survive a twelve-story “fall” from his office window, and Mama went out of her mind.

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