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Kate drew more and more on her affection for Joel through the hot days of summer work.
She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer, after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom.
Kate had walked past the school on her morning chores and had seen the whole incident, had seen Joel's burning humiliation before Miss Snow's cold, bespectacled wrath.
He had the hardest pains of growing before him now, as he approached twelve.
These would be his hardest years, she knew, and he missed his father desperately.
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