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Show \3J8 ya want me to say the Oath of Supremacy?" Thomas was quiet, allowing the younger ones to speak. "What would mother say?" Benny needed to know. "You tell me," Lathrop gently encouraged Benny to make a judgment. "I don't care what mother would say! Or what you or any of you say, I think father should come home. And I'll never understand why he doesn't." Barbara ran from the room, brushing past Elise who was just entering. "Mistress Hannah is awake, Reverend. She's asking for you," there was concern in Elise's eyes. With the help of Thomas, Lathrop rose to his feet. The children started to follow, but were restrained by Jane, "Thomas and Elise are in there!" Benny tried to force his way through to the other room. "It's too exhausting for mother to have us all in there at one time. Now then, I have an idea how we can help father." The children drew in close as Jane was talking just barely above a whisper. "Perhaps if we are nice to the guard and give him something to eat, he will show extra courtesies to father in the prison." ' "But what can we offer him?" asked Joseph. "The best that we have," said Jane. |