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up agin, and make ya the best meal this side of
paradise."
"I'll take you up on that, Rye."
His face grew serious again.
"Them spirits didn't stay away neither, did they,
Miss Annie?"
"I guess not, Rye."
He nodded and looked at Aunt Fanny. "What's he been drinkin'? Lawd, what a place." "Only drinks to prevent snakebite, miss." "Is that so?"
Rye's eyes twinkled.
"Yes, ma'am, and it works cause I never been
bit." "Let's go, Luke," Aunt Fanny said and nodded
toward the front door. Luke opened it, but just as he
came back to push me out, we heard Tony's scream.
All of us turn to look up the stairway. He was
standing at the top, holding his fist high.
"You take that girl out of this house and you're
responsible for whatever happens. I've already called
her doctor. He's enraged."
"Well, you jist tell him ta go see a doctor
himself, then," Aunt Fanny said, and chuckled at her
own reply. Without further hesitation, she waved
Luke forward and he started to wheel me out of the
house.
"Stop!" Tony shouted. He came charging down
the stairway.
"That man's loco," Aunt Fanny muttered. "Stop," he repeated, approaching us. "You can't
take her from here. She's mine."
"Yours?" Aunt Fanny started to laugh
disdainfully.
"She is mine! She is!" He took a deep breath
