harry, you will not remember me but we go back quite a ways. i'm glad hattie told me that you will be here 'cause there is a matter that has been troubling me all these years that maybe you can help me clear it up.
there is something that i always wanted to know. tell me, how did those boys die?
miss clara's boy, emory, to start with. the johnson's hocker was another one.
you know as well as i do that it was made to look like he was lynched. now who would hang someone from a persimmon tree?
hocker's death almost caused a race riot. a lot of innocent people could have been hurt behind that.
chick was outright killed by a mob. he killed a white man that owed him some money and when they caught up with him, they tied him behind a car and dragged him from out of the hills back to town.
you damn right they didn't, especially emory, my cousin.
what happened?
here, go around to the store and buy what you want.
harry didn't have any relatives living, did he?
somebody has to take responsibility for him.
these are letters to his son.
if the dead wagon comes, we ought to leave a note telling them we'll be down the street at a picnic.