Junior turned and momentarily studied the road he had traveled.“ People live out through there,” he said. “It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? But there’re colored people living out there, Mushy. The houses are so many miles apart that the people seldom visit each other, and they don’t come into town that often. About six miles to the first house, three to the next. I go out once a week to let them know what’s going on in the world.”