The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck

Author:Richard Peck [Peck, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad,” said Father Ludlow in place of his prepared invocation, “that our brothers and sisters in this community were snatched from untimely and awful death.”

There was a mumbling in the congregation by those who knew about the bridge business telling their neighbors. “And let us pray for our benighted brother, Amory Timmons, whose madness hath delivered him from our realm to the seat of a merciful judgment.”

Dad stirred at that, but Jake McCulloch, the undertaker, leaned up from the pew behind and whispered into his ear. Then Dad slipped forward on the kneeler and offered a silent prayer for Amory’s soul. I did the same, feeling bad that I hadn’t thought of it before.

The thought of Inez Dumaine interrupted my prayers for Amory. I didn’t know what to make of Inez, but I knew then as I know now that she is of the next world, not this, so I added a word or two in her behalf.

While I was doing all this praying, Father Ludlow was saying in the background, “... and a little child shall lead them.” Though I am not exactly little and no longer a child, I took this as a personal reference. I could begin to feel the hot breath of publicity on the back of my neck. And I knew full well that I’d have some explaining to do of matters very difficult to explain.

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