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ARDATH MAYHAR

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KENNETH MARVIN тАЬBEARтАЭ HEDBERG

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CHAPTER I. Washington Shipp



Singing enthusiastically, Washington Shipp was hosing off the driveway when Jewel, his wife, called him
to the telephone. It had been years since Wash heard from his Auntie Libby, who lived way down in the
swamp country beside the river, and he was surprised to hear her quavery voice.
 "You in town, Auntie?тАЭ he asked, wondering what could have brought one so old and feeble out of the
river bottoms. She almost never ventured out of her cypress house on stilts, down near Sundown
Swamp. He felt anxious as she fumbled for words. Her mind, always so sharp, seemed to be failing, now
that she was ninety-three.



At last she said, тАЬWash, they's talk, down here. YoтАЩ cousin Jimmie done told us somethinтАЩ big in the
drug line is cominтАЩ in. He heard it from that Dooley boy, young Wim. That boy, he knows just about
everythinтАЩ goes on down here, and Jim told me he trusts his word."