in this town for over six years and that was a fight over a woman, certainly nothing like this.”
      “Be careful Daddy,” Sophie said as she put her arms around his neck. “Please be careful.”
     “Don’t worry honey a man like this doesn’t fight with men he likes his victims to be helpless, weak, frightened and helpless. Don’t you worry about me but as for you until we get the man who did this I don’t want you to leave the yard. June and his boys will be right down past the bean fields until sunset and I’ll let him know if you need him you will ring the bell and he and his boys will come running. I feel better with you here rather than in town but you stay near the house and keep your rifle loaded.”...

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