Harper Lake

Harper Lake

Friday, July 22, 2011

Time for Revenge

The next morning Emma Jean taken a taxi and had the driver make his way over the Huey P Long Bridge. Back in those days there warn't near as much stuff over there as there is today. The driver knew where most of the pawn shops was located at. He stopped at each one and let Emma Jean go inside and look for Charles Boyer. It didn't take too long to find the right shop. The sign on the outside said Over the River Pawn Shop, proprietor Wilmer Wallace. Emma Jean walked in and stood at the counter in front of the man she had known as Charles Boyer. "Are you Wilmer Wallace?" she asked. "Sure am, what can I do for you, pretty lady?" "You don't even know who I am," said Emma Jean. Wilmer admitted that he did not. She told him who she was and he almost fell over. Then she told him all she wanted from him were to promise never to come back to Harper no more. He agreed. "And if I ever see you there again I'll call the sheriff." Wilmer assured he would never come back and she believed him, mostly 'cause he were white-as-a-sheet scared.
On her ride back to the Roosevelt, Emma Jean smiled and remembered something she had heard as a small girl:

The Best Revenge is Living Well !!!

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