The Boys Start the War
“Dead! Obviously dead.Wally looked wordlessly at Jake, his mouth hanging open. They had only thrown a few dead fish and squirrels and possums. The new folks were throwing people!The boys couldn’t hear across the river, of course, but they had studied the small girl lying there on the sheet and she hadn’t moved a finger. Not a toe. The sisters were crying like crazy, and then, like a burial at sea, they’d dumped her in the river.“I don’t believe it!” said Jake hoarsely.“In the river!” said Josh.They sat with their eyes glued to the spot in the water where the body had disappeared. The body sank way down and did not come up again, and the two sisters were walking slowly back up the hill toward the house, arms around each other, heads down.“They must have weighted her down with stones,” breathed Jake.Wally’s throat was so dry, he could hardly get the words out. “What—what do you suppose she died of?” The answer, at the back of his mind, was too awful to say aloud.“The—the water wasn’t tha...t polluted,”MoreLess
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