““You didn’t want to go any worse than me.” “Yeah, but you have a hurt ankle, Pap,” Maggie said. “You couldn’t go.” “Oh, yes I could,” Pap said, his chin jutting out stubbornly. Maggie and Pap were sitting on the front porch, in the swing, waiting for the police. All they had been talking about was how much they had wanted to go with Vern and Vicki on the search for Mad Mary’s place. Both of them wanted to be where the action was. By turns, they pushed the swing back and forth, back and forth. “...I was the logical one to go,” Pap said, “because I went to school with the woman. I knowed her. We was in a talent show one time in grade school.” Maggie was so startled, she stopped the swing. It bobbed awkwardly on its chains. “Pap, you and Mad Mary were in a talent show?” “My talent, naturally, was rope tricks,” he went on. That talent show was one of Pap’s favorite childhood memories. For a long time he had even had a picture of himself in the western costume his mama had put together for the talent show.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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