“I pulled him out the barrel, run in’n’ showed Pa an’ he said, ‘Here’s what we’re gonna tell her. You and Clay was playin’ outside an’ a big man come out the bush an’ cracked you on your empty melon an’ when you waked up Clay was gone’.” Aaron said, “Then he picked up that ashtray an’ brained me hard with it.” He leaned forward now, digging in his hair to show Graham the long scar on his scalp. “After that, he wrapped Clay up in an ol’ blanket an’ put ’im in the hole over to the Misner place what burned down. Put ’im down the rut cellar.” He pointed into the distance along the road. There was
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