“Laura tells me that Peggy is goin’ back to the HJ, after the funeral, Hozie.”
Uncle Hozie nodded slowly.
“She says she is, Honey.”
“Yo’re a pretty good friend of mine, aint’cha, Hozie?”
“Well—” Hozie pursed his lips and blinked at Honey—“I never throwed any rocks at yuh when yuh wasn’t lookin’.”
Honey leaned forward and whispered rapidly in Hozie’s ear.
“Huh? O-o-oh!” Hozie understood.
A few minutes later Hozie met Curt Bellew near the kitchen door.
“I jist wanted to ask yuh somethin’, Curt,” said Uncle Hozie. “I—uh—I been talkin’ to Peggy. Yuh see, Curt, she’s goin’ to stay at the HJ, at least a while. Won’t be nobody there but her and Laura and Wong Lee.”
“Uh-huh.”