She stood before the window a long time, her back to the crowd, while everyone waited to see what she would say. Officer Gurney raised the yellow tape so Mrs. She and her committee-the Reverend Loomis, Mayor Orville Milton, Police Chief Ralph Gurney, and a few others-were the most important people in the town. Brenda Beeson was the one who had figured out the Prophet’s mumbled words and explained what they meant. If he was late again, he might get a note sent home to his parents. “What do you think?” Grover was in danger of being late for school by this time. She had a short brownish-blond ponytail that stuck out through a hole in her red baseball hat. His eyes lit on a comfortably plump woman wearing a red down jacket that made her look even plumper. “Officer Gurney ran a strip of yellow tape around the back area of the café, roping it off so no one could disturb the site.
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