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stood and put her arm around the elderly
woman’s shoulders. Mother Davis leaned
against Rachel for some time. Finally, Rachel
pulled up a chair facing Mother Davis.
“Mother, how did you know he was
coming?”
“He wrote to me.”
“He wrote to you? When? I never saw a
letter.”
Mother Davis shook her head. “He didn’t
send his letters here.”
“Letters? You mean there was more than
one?”
Mother Davis nodded. “I got the first one
about a year after he left.”
“How and where did you get them?”
“About a year after Jacob left,” Mother
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