“My mother brought me and Dewey home after our group finished up at Painted Lake, and made us a quick lunch before she went out again. I was glad she didn’t ask if we wanted to go with her. By then the rain was coming down something fierce, and I’d really had my fill of walking through the woods. My mother didn’t end up finally getting home until long after I was in bed. I was still awake though, on account of I couldn’t sleep, thinking about what Mr. Garner had told me and Dewey about Ruby Mae ...Vickers. About it being some kind of cougar that was responsible,just not the kind of cougar we was thinking about. He was talking about the human kind, I figured, and I couldn’t imagine what sort of person would take a girl away only to kill her a few months later. I wondered if Dewey was lying in his own bed thinking something the same, and I suspected he likely was. The rain pounded on my window and I thought about poor Ruby Mae out there by herself, dead beneath that willow tree. My stomach flipped and I near enough threw up right there in my bed.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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