![]() Mama calms him down and convinces him to wait until the next day, and with cooler heads prevailing he calls Hammer. Their note has come due ahead of schedule, and Papa is ready to go and fight immediately. Morrison has just returned from making the August mortgage payment in Strawberry and hands Papa an envelope, which he opens and then becomes angry. Stacey coldly refuses and Jeremy seems to understand, though offers to help them build their own sometime anyway. The story soon makes its way back to the children via Jeremy Simms, who tells them of his tree house, which he invites them to come and see sometime. Morrison calmly asks him to move the truck blocking their path, and when the white man refuses, gets down and picks it up himself, moving it aside. On the way back, when a truck comes into view, he tells Cassie to get in back, and Kaleb Wallace approaches the wagon. Morrison emerges from the shed in which he’s been staying and announces he’s going to see about some work down at the Wiggins’ farm, and agrees the children can come along. Papa resists borrowing money from his brother Hammer, who he fears will discover why and come to take revenge on those responsible for his injury and likely get himself in trouble, too. ![]() Papa’s broken leg is worrisome for several reasons, not least of which is making the mortgage payments without his railroad work.
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