him running off with the cart.
       After dinner Sophie and her daddy put up the fence to keep any hogs from wandering down to the pond and then they walked back to the house in the purple twilight. The pecan trees were full of lightening bugs and Sophie thought the orchard looked like a fairy land. He father’s voice broke the spell.
     “I have to go into town tonight,” he said when they were about half way through the orchard. “Something happened down by the docks last night and the men of the town have to discuss it.”
      He sounded strange to Sophie as if he wasn’t telling her the whole story.
     “What happened?” she asked.
      Her father he...

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