Chapter 28
The Dues of a Coward
“MOSES, WHAT THE hell you doin’? You can’t be draggin’ no tied-up strangers into our barn. Sometimes you so stupid! Crazy Vent, leading stupid Moses…whatever this is, seems like big trouble. Mind my words, Moses. Big trouble. What your stupid brain done got me involved with now!”
“Ezra, ain’t no reason for you to be involved, but if you want to understand what we doin’, you come inside and find out. Remember, though, this here my barn, and this here my land, so older brother or not, I’m not gonna take no more instructions from you. You comin’ in or stayin’ out?”
“Damn fool, course I’m comin’ in, need to keep crazy and stupid under control.”
“Okay, Ezra, but you ain’t controlling nothing—you don’t understand what going on here. I do. This time, little br
