It took only a few more minutes to get there.
"I declare, look at the wagons and buggies, Bandershanks!
We'll have to go on around to the side yard."
Papa was standing on the porch, talking to some men. More men
were down at the wagon shelter, where they were looking at Mister
Ward's automobile. One man was up in it, trying out the hand
wheel and the pedals.
As soon as Papa noticed us, he came around the house to help
us get out.
"Nannie, drive Dale up in the yard, and I'll hitch him to
this corner post. It's a good thing you brought this dry
stovewood, 'cause when I got here, there wasn't a stick cut. I
finally got Ned to chop kindling for both fireplaces."
"Jodie, what have you found out?"
"Not much, yet. You remember Miss Dink's half-brother, Mister
Hiram?"
"Of course. He was the man who brought Bandershanks home."
"Well, Uncle Hiram, as they call him, found Ward early this
morning, lying down yonder below the barn, about halfway between
the barn and the woods."
Papa kept talking as he lifted Mama down to the ground.
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