Death From the Hayloft ((Part Two, To - "There Was a Lady)(Story Three, to "Voices Out of Saigon"))

... From the hayloft
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((Three-Story) (Part II))

Caroline, one day after their arrival back home from Saigon went to the barn, a barn now horseless, manless, Negro Less, and now children, an old lantern sat on the steps to the hayloft, they picked it up, lit it, it was dusk, in mid-November, 1972. For a moment she thought she saw old Josh Jr., and Langdon-'Geister ... perhaps, "muttered it so now she was having on those days when Josh Langdon taught how to ride bareback-taught how to mount Langdon how to shine the leather to the saddle, he was nine years old in the time.

She also recalled the day Josh informed them about the night Langdon came into the barn at 2:00 clock, Josh in thinking the time he was sleep walking, but far away. Josh Jefferson Jr., told her, says Caroline That night, a few things each year to make it interesting, Caroline thought, but it was the truth, it was just Josh not want to see them all at once, he had his reasons. They all had their reasons, what they did, and now she had come to the conclusion, then they have looked at hers.

She, it was a high roofed barn a large barn with a large hayloft, graer as she could remember, and perhaps had they are not taken notice of it for a spelling test. It was like a mausoleum, they wanted their hands on the men they loved her boys, her husband, and old Josh. And they all could do was talk to her .

The more they tried to understand the less they understand, where was the connection she felt was always there? It was over. "Here it is," she said, according to himself, "because it was over now!" Was

It everything is so strange to her, nobody expected that it happen that way.

The wind shutdown of the large barn doors, no sound from the misty darkness in the barn, the darkness beyond the light lamps. It was now, her mind was Now, compilation, pictures from that night, when Langdon came into the barn, asked Josh,

"I want to ride Dan, the old horse, no saddle or anything, I want him to ride around the barn, bareback. "

Josh looked at him strangely, the boy then said,

" Uncle Josh, teach me how to ride old Dan, I can not sleep, it's been in my eyes for a while now is the time I learn, I have him Since feeding the day I was born, I think now is the time to go, pa thinks I'm still too young, but I am not. I am nine years old. "

Josh looked on, all animals were waking up, the cow in the Corral, mules and horses in the barn, the stall next to Dan, all big eyes and sleepy-eyed awakening up.

" I suppose I have now teach Yaw, now that youall done woke up the whole darn barn, which pa ya goin 'to say if I told him? "

" But you will not I know. "Langdon exclaimed.

" How Yaw know that? "Replied Josh.

" cuz reckon I answered Langdon.

...!" "Well, youall know more than I do." And they both started laughing, and Josh got the horse, and Josh helped him, and Dan on the back, and Langdon rode the horse around the barn several times.

After the trip, Josh, old Dan back in his stall, standing by Langdon, and Dan begins to whine and pedals his hooves, like a mad bull.

"He like the mule, and you Langdon, and he is not goin 'back to sleep, yes" as you! "

Caroline changed some, and began to stare into the dark shadow, beyond the light, thinking what Josh had said, told her: Langdon, in Dan's hay barn, there was one hour, until he fell to sleep, thinking it was the thing to do the right Thing to do, how it was the right thing to do when he went back to Saigon to take care of his boys, got his child after he has borrowed from the army, Josue, marry and his Vang, indifferent and insensitive Vang, a, misled him, Jezebel, Delia that the more in his life one day, and causes so many waves within his family, they never really want to see the family (one iota of interest in them), never really with intent to marry him, never really want him to come looking for them in Saigon.

After Dan fell to sleep, even old Josh had fallen to sleep, the boy had then woke up and went back to his bed in the house, because Josh woke up when he was gone. And shortly afterwards, Josh fell back to sleep, and he said Caroline: the last thing he could remember, before he went to sleep, was that everything was noisy, and now daybreak had arrived.

Unhurried, Caroline was from the meeting of wooden staircase and daydreaming, which is top in the direction attic. She heard the sound of a hunting dog, they opened the barn door, and there was Tabasco, Langdon's dog, caked with mud. She had forgotten all the time about them, they disappeared six months to sometime when her husband died Cole. She brought with her dog in the house, gave him some beef jerky, and both went back to the barn to their memories, the dog to sit next to her, and reaffirm that he was really home.

She thought, gee the dog must They have lived the country all this time.

She could hear in the background, somewhere in the fields, a few other dogs yapping, under the moonlight, stray dogs, the dogs los people from their cars to run on farms, Sun they do not have to even more responsibility: one out of sight, out of mind thing.

She wanted to return to their daydreaming, she had some good memories, she was happy in peace, a very nice rest, she had swallowed, and they was not happy for a very long time, but she was happy now, very quiet, unhurried, the yapping of the dogs did not even bother her.

She lowered his head, it was nice to have a familiar face, she thought, even if is a dog. Tabasco sat close to Caroline's leg, perhaps feeling the warm blood, the smell of familiarity. Tabasco chewed away at the long thick piece of beef jerky, it was nice to be able to make them happy, Caroline thought it was a long time because they come from every happy.

She spoke with the dog,

"Do you remember old Josh Died he, like Cole, as well as Langdon, we are the only ones left. Sold the old cow and Dan also passed and sold the other horses. Never again someone's Tabasco for us. "

Tabasco Yelping

Caroline now thinking of Old Josh's bad habit of chewing tobacco and spitting it out. Then they looked at the dog-empty like.

"Have you no children Tabasco, you'll just be hurt. What do you think about all this? Josh, and Dan, and Langdon and Cole, and then there's me and you We survived them all. "(A rhetorical question, of course.)

The old dog said nothing, legs a bit weak, she was comfortable for the moment. Not even a bark. It has the character of Caroline just sat there, not a little woof or display of displeasure, just sat there chewing on the leather like piece of meat, happy to have it.

"Tabasco, that old man spat darn all that tobacco, all over the place. Oh, he would do it carefully, as not to bring it to the House carpets, I would not see it, but boys go to the Corral, and you step it as safe as it is cow dung. "

Then they laughed, and the dog looked like if a dog could smile, they recognized him as one, because they patted her on the head and said:

" They understand too well. "

" How stupid were two, Josh and Langdon, Langdon Cole never played with all that much, some football, he was always working hard so it seemed. "

She stand up, stand without a word, slowly, not to frighten the dog, without any change inflection.

"Oh," she said to the dog Shaggy, "you have to find a new home-pity, but I will not be here and everyone else is gone. You do not need my sympathy, you'll do just fine on their own , As you already have, "Sho!" She told the dog and the dog got up and went on a horse stands, Dan's old stall.

She was now on the dog, and they quickly fell to sleep: "I wonder what they are dreaming, Cole once told me dogs dream, and Josh confirmed it, something for the survival reasons, I believe, a primitive thing."

Now top of the attic, she took a long piece of wire rope stable , Tied to a four by four beams, and then put the noose around his neck and jumped from the edge of the gallery, Hung-

Hanging there her fingers made a final jerk and she said, whispered to himself, ' ; No time to hate, and her throat and nose holes made a sound, and she was dead.

Epitaph

When the dog woke up at dawn, the neighbors could hear the cries of the yapping dog, they left the stable, guarded the entrance to the barn , Waited until the neighbours came, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley. Idea-free profound urgency of the matter, it was noon before they arrived.

 

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