Sunday, April 26, 2020



The southwest corner of North St. Andrews and Powell, site of the old Baker house

page 59 of DEVIL MAKE A THIRD:

CHAPTER SIX

The location of the new home to cover all the Bannons was a problem that lasted only long enough for Buck to bring his dusty buggy back in sight of Aven. It took three more days to buy the block of land, but the time wasn't badly spent and the extra hundred dollars the land had cost wasn't wasted because his store was across the street and down a little way.

"A man oughtn't to live over two hoe handles from his business," Buck had kept telling himself during the next few weeks while the foundation was being laid. "It ain't the fanciest section, but rush days in the store, we'll have plenty of hands close by,"  he'd mutter to himself as he watched the raw framework of the house shoulder one of it's corners between the only two oak trees left on St. Simon Street.

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