Chapter 7 · free to read
Four thousand people once. Six hundred now. Four cemeteries and a mill pond, and not one person under fifty on the whole street.
She had poured the second cup before the bell over the door rang. She told us later she had been pouring it every morning for three weeks.
She said the thing that turned the whole job over. It took her one sentence and she had plainly been rehearsing it for a very long time.
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