didn’t know what she was going to do about the kids. She’d never even seen them. Didn’t know what they were like. They could be meaner than snakes. Letting them go to an orphan’s home, though, seemed kinda rotten, but what were they to her? “Clay’s kids, that’s what,” her mind said, and then she’d be right back to where she was at, not knowing what to do about them young’uns. Lord, why’d they have to drink that moonshine? It messed up everything!
She loaded the Chrysler down with her suitcases and started out. Jewel hated to admit to herself that she didn’t know which way to go, but thought she’d just get a map and try that. Jewel never went much of anywhere since all her life she was so used to staying at home. To a hotel with Dan maybe and then straight back home. She’d go into Chillicothe to different theaters to see movies, and knew where all the better stores were. But the only place Bull took her was out to eat every once in a while and she figured that was just to show her off. He sure did do a lot of preening when they went someplace where other people could see them, but she noticed there was never nobody there that Bull knew, or if they was they didn’t do no talking.
Jewel figured she was like one of Bull’s cars. Before he took her somewhere, he’d inspect her to make sure she was wearing her most expensive stuff and if something she was wearing didn’t please him, he’d make her change. And he told her to keep her mouth shut while they were out. If anybody said anything to her she was just supposed to smile at them and nod. It made her awful uneasy, to the point that she dreaded going anywhere at all with him. But Bull wouldn’t show off no jalopy.
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