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Contemporary Mystery


​THE WIDOW RUSSELL'S BOY

ROBB T. WHITE
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Emmaline watched him play alone in the dirt.  His brothers and sisters were used to his silences.  In the thoughtless ways of children, they left him to himself while he scratched marks in the dirt with a stick. Her “silent son,” her beloved Amiel.
 
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