You know I
ain't thought about it much, but Miss June if she's still breathing would be
more'n ninety years old. She don't know it I guess but she caused a whole bunch
of trouble for Harper County by not revealing her husband’s lover. When I was a
teenager and even when I was a young married man, I took notice of some of the
old womens at church giving the evil eye to the young pretty womens. And you
know even after they found out they was wrong they just kept right on gossiping
about other peoples. I guess they figured since there wasn't no special words
saying directly "Thou shalt not gossip" they was home free. I reckon
they excused it as not bearing false witness since they wasn’t absolutely sure
it was false witness.
And worse
than that Harper lost some of its innocence. A lot of it. Since then we've had
dozens of murders in the county and drugs are everywhere and mens is beating up
on womens. Not to mention all the babies borned who will never know who they
daddy is. Yeah, I think Miss June was the start of all that. A feller said to
me they have stuff like that going on everywhere and Miss June wasn't in all
them places. And I said I reckon she was in a way, but her name just wasn't
June.
Tomorrow: A Call from Jack
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