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Show 142 Jane immediately went to her father's side. Lathrop looked lost and desperate. "If I cry, will mother hear me?" Benny asked Thomas. Thomas shook his head while lifting Benny into his arms to give him some reassurance. "I can cry loud," there was an increased anxiety in Benny's voice. "We'll be brave, like father. That's what mother would want," said Jane who was not surprised that her mother had been taken. "Brave like father?" Benny started a ferocious struggle with Thomas to get free. When Thomas set him down, Benny began an emotional retort. "I don't want to write a letter to the King! I hate the King. And I hate the Bishop too!" He started to kick and punch the guard. Thomas grabbed Benny and forcibly quieted him. Benny buried his head in Thomas's shoulder and sobbed uncontrollably as though his world had shattered. "What can I do? What can I do?" Lathrop felt helpless and unworthy to meet the emotional crisis at hand. He was blaming himself for the circumstances that had brought them all to this juncture. "The miracle, father, is that mother lived long enough to see you again," Jane offered words of comfort. "The jail keepers have allowed many prisoners to |