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King
Cotton
had
been
deposed
in
the
South
seventy
years
before
all
these
things
happened
and
would
never
be
king
again
,
but
in
those
years
of
the
thirties
it
had
a
little
revival
.
There
were
no
more
cotton
plantations
,
but
there
were
forty
or
fifty
prosperous
cotton
farms
in
the
southern
part
of
our
state
.
Klaus
Detterick
owned
one
of
them
.
By
the
standards
of
the
nineteen-fifties
he
would
have
been
considered
only
a
rung
above
shirttail
poor
,
but
by
those
of
the
thirties
he
was
considered
well-to-do
because
he
actually
paid
his
store
bill
in
cash
at
the
end
of
most
months
,
and
he
could
meet
the
bank
president
's
eyes
if
they
happened
to
pass
on
the
street
.
The
farmhouse
was
clean
and
commodious
.
In
addition
to
the
cotton
,
there
were
the
other
two
c
's
:
chickens
and
a
few
cows
.
He
and
his
wife
had
three
children
:
Howard
.
who
was
twelve
or
thereabouts
,
and
the
twin
girls
.
Cora
and
Kathe
.
On
a
warm
night
in
June
of
that
year
,
the
girls
asked
for
and
were
given
permission
to
sleep
on
the
screen-enclosed
side
porch
,
which
ran
the
length
of
the
house
.
This
was
a
great
treat
for
them
.
Their
mother
kissed
them
goodnight
just
shy
of
nine
,
when
the
last
light
had
gone
out
of
the
sky
.
It
was
the
final
time
she
saw
either
of
them
until
they
were
in
their
coffins
and
the
undertaker
had
repaired
the
worst
of
the
damage
.
Country
families
went
to
bed
early
in
those
days
--
"
soon
as
"
twas
dark
under
the
table
,
"
my
own
mother
sometimes
said
--
and
slept
soundly
.
Certainly
Klaus
,
Marjorie
,
and
Howie
Detterick
did
on
the
night
the
twins
were
taken
.
Klaus
would
almost
certainly
have
been
wakened
by
Bowser
,
the
family
's
big
old
half-breed
collie
,
if
he
had
barked
,
but
Bowser
did
n't
.
Not
that
night
,
not
ever
again
.
Klaus
was
up
at
first
light
to
do
the
milking
.
The
porch
was
on
the
side
of
the
house
away
from
the
barn
,
and
Klaus
never
thought
to
look
in
on
the
girls
.
Bowser
's
failure
to
join
him
was
no
cause
for
alarm
,
either
.
The
dog
held
the
cows
and
the
chickens
alike
in
great
disdain
,
and
usually
hid
in
his
doghouse
behind
the
barn
when
the
chores
were
being
performed
,
unless
called
...
and
called
energetically
,
at
that
.
Marjorie
came
downstairs
fifteen
minutes
or
so
after
her
husband
had
pulled
on
his
boots
in
the
mudroom
and
tromped
out
to
the
barn
.
She
started
the
coffee
,
then
put
bacon
on
to
fry
.
The
combined
smells
brought
Howie
down
from
his
room
under
the
eaves
,
but
not
the
girls
from
the
porch
.
She
sent
Howie
out
to
fetch
them
as
she
cracked
eggs
into
the
bacon
grease
.
Klaus
would
want
the
girls
out
to
get
fresh
ones
as
soon
as
breakfast
was
over
.
Except
no
breakfast
was
eaten
in
the
Detterick
house
that
morning
.
Howie
came
back
from
the
porch
,
white
around
the
gills
and
with
his
formerly
sleep-puffy
eyes
now
wide
open
.
"
They
're
gone
,
"
he
said
.
Marjorie
went
out
onto
the
porch
,
at
first
more
annoyed
than
alarmed
.
She
said
later
that
she
had
supposed
,
if
she
had
supposed
anything
,
that
the
girls
had
decided
to
take
a
walk
and
pick
flowers
by
the
dawn
's
early
light
.
That
or
some
similar
green-girl
foolishness
.
One
look
,
and
she
understood
why
Howie
had
been
white
.
She
screamed
for
Klaus
--
shrieked
for
him
--
and
Klaus
came
on
the
dead
run
,
his
workboots
whitened
by
the
half-full
pail
of
milk
he
had
spilled
on
them
.
What
he
found
on
the
porch
would
have
jellied
the
legs
of
the
most
courageous
parent
.
The
blankets
in
which
the
girls
would
have
bundled
themselves
as
the
night
drew
on
and
grew
colder
had
been
cast
into
one
comer
.
The
screen
door
had
been
yanked
off
its
upper
hinge
and
hung
drunkenly
out
into
the
dooryard
.
And
on
the
boards
of
both
the
porch
and
the
steps
beyond
the
mutilated
screen
door
,
there
were
spatters
of
blood
.
