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which happens to be smack in the middle of everything. She was frightened now—more frightened than when she had looked through the window and seen the old woman crooning to the glass ball. “Susan, did I hear the gate?”“Yes, Aunt!” she called back. The first boy took a sulfur match, stuck it between his protruding front teeth, and lit it.

Susannah gasped with fear and wonder. One body, Susannah saw, had been hung from a lamppost, and that brought back nightmarish memories of the run for the Cra “Don’t ask him any questions—he’s not in any mood for silly questions this morning. Neither of them had had any reason to doubt the man’s story.