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Like
him
tellin
Missus
Stratton
he
wanted
to
cut
a
rug
with
her
.
There
was
somethin
goin
on
in
there
,
Louis
,
but
I
do
n't
think
it
was
thinkin
and
I
do
n't
think
it
had
much
--
maybe
nothing
at
all
--
to
do
with
Timmy
Baterman
.
It
was
more
like
a.
.
.
a
radio
signal
that
was
comin
from
somewhere
else
.
You
looked
at
him
and
you
thought
,
"
If
he
touches
me
,
I
'm
gon
na
scream
.
"
Like
that
.
"
Back
and
forth
he
went
,
up
and
down
the
road
,
and
one
day
after
I
got
home
from
work
--
this
must
have
been
,
oh
,
I
'm
going
to
say
it
was
July
30
or
so
--
here
is
George
Anderson
,
the
postmaster
,
do
n't
you
know
,
sitting
on
my
back
porch
,
drinking
iced
tea
with
Hannibal
Benson
,
who
was
then
our
second
selectman
,
and
Alan
Purinton
,
who
was
fire
chief
.
Norma
sat
there
too
but
never
said
a
thing
.
"
George
kept
rubbing
the
stump
at
the
top
of
his
right
leg
.
Lost
most
of
that
leg
working
on
the
railroad
,
he
did
,
and
the
stump
used
to
bother
him
something
fierce
on
those
hot
and
muggy
days
.
But
here
he
was
,
misery
or
not
.
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"
This
has
gone
far
enough
,
"
George
says
to
me
.
"
I
got
a
mailwoman
who
wo
n't
deliver
out
on
the
Pedersen
Road
--
that
's
one
thing
.
It
's
starting
to
raise
Cain
with
the
government
,
and
that
's
something
else
.
'
"
What
do
you
mean
,
it
's
raising
Cain
with
the
government
?
"
I
asked
.
"
Hannibal
said
he
'd
had
a
call
from
the
War
Department
.
Some
lieutenant
named
Kinsman
whose
job
it
was
to
sort
out
malicious
mischief
from
plain
old
tomfoolery
.
"
Four
or
five
people
have
written
anonymous
letters
to
the
War
Department
,
"
Hannibal
says
,
"
and
this
Lieutenant
Kinsman
is
starting
to
get
a
little
bit
concerned
.
If
it
was
just
one
fellow
who
had
written
one
letter
,
they
'd
laugh
it
off
.
If
it
was
just
one
fellow
writing
a
whole
bunch
of
letters
,
Kinsman
says
he
'd
call
the
state
police
up
in
Derry
Barracks
and
tell
em
they
might
have
a
psychopath
with
a
hate
on
against
the
Baterman
family
in
Ludlow
.
But
these
letters
all
came
from
different
people
.
He
said
you
could
tell
that
by
the
handwriting
,
name
or
no
name
,
and
they
all
say
the
same
crazy
thing
--
that
if
Timothy
Baterman
is
dead
,
he
makes
one
hell
of
a
lively
corpse
walking
up
and
down
Pedersen
Road
with
his
bare
face
hanging
out
.
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"
This
Kinsman
is
going
to
send
a
fellow
out
or
come
himself
if
this
do
n't
settle
down
,
"
Hannibal
finishes
up
.
"
They
want
to
know
if
Timmy
's
dead
,
or
AWOL
,
or
what
because
they
do
n't
like
to
think
their
records
are
all
at
sixes
and
sevens
.
Also
they
're
gon
na
want
to
know
who
was
buried
in
Timmy
Baterman
's
box
,
if
he
was
n't
.
'
"
Well
,
you
can
see
what
kind
of
a
mess
it
was
,
Louis
.
We
sat
there
most
of
an
hour
,
drinking
iced
tea
and
talking
it
over
.
Norma
asked
us
if
we
wanted
sandwidges
,
but
no
one
did
.
"
We
talked
it
around
and
talked
it
around
,
and
finally
we
decided
we
had
to
go
out
there
to
the
Baterman
place
.
I
'll
never
forget
that
night
,
not
if
I
live
to
be
twice
as
old
's
I
am
now
.