Death's Half Acre by Margaret Maron

Author:Margaret Maron
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: FIC022000
ISBN: 9780446537889
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2008-08-19T22:00:00+00:00

Millard Hinton was an upright pillar of the community, a farmer who had never been known to use tobacco in any form nor to take a drink of anything alcoholic. As soon as the tobacco buyout began, he sold his poundage and began raising cotton, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.

“Ain’t nobody ever found Jesus in a cigarette,” he said. “It’s Satan that wants to get you in his fire.”

Nevertheless, he had told Kezzie Knott years earlier that he would be proud to have him fish in his pond anytime he wanted. A couple of elderly men who knew about the arrangement also knew what that old bootlegger had done to merit the lasting gratitude of such a man of God, but neither of them ever spoke about it.

The man-made pond lay about a half-mile off the road and had been scooped out of three acres of soggy bottomland that had never been much good for anything except pigs and maybe holding the world together.

When Kezzie and his truck topped the rise and headed down the lane to the water’s edge, he saw another vehicle there before him. A lone man watched him approach. He was fishing with a cane pole, and a red plastic float out on the surface of the pond showed where his hook and line were.

“Evening,” said Kezzie, stepping down from the truck and taking out his own rod.

The man gave him a friendly nod.

“It ain’t gonna bother you, is it, if I do a little fishing myself?”

“Not a bit, Mr. Knott. This place is big enough for both of us.”

“I’m afraid you’ve got the better of me,” Kezzie said, giving the man a closer look. “I don’t believe we’ve met?”

“My name’s McKinney,” the man said, stretching out his hand to shake. “Faison McKinney. I’m the preacher at the Church of Jesus Christ Eternal over near you.”

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