She looked young and disgustingly untroubled. BeePorn They joked, they sang, and they shouted “Merry Christmas!“ at every opportunity, as Christmas Eve–being a time for miracles–was the only night of the year when fate allowed them out of the grave to make merry again. And I won‘t lie now and tell you that I wouldn‘t do the same things all over again. Even Betsy Barrow, who sewed secret messages into rider’s cloaks during the Revolution and captured two British spies with the militia at the Pepperell bridge in 1776, appeared, putting aside old arguments with the ghosts of her Tory ancestors. “Didn’t you hear that?” Thomas said, the tightness in his chest strangling his voice. Maybe you were always keeping her on the side somewhere, and I just never noticed?”
Thomas didn’t answer, of course, although the lines on his brow became deeper. He thought he recognized some of the furniture, all old things that had belonged to his great grandmother, collecting dust in these old rooms for years and years. Mary Barrow, the Sunday school teacher who drowned trying to teach her students how Christ walked on the sea,
