Summary

THE BOYS CALLED THEIR FATHER SIR

Glory watches Jack get dressed one evening to go out. He doesn’t say where he is going, but that he will be back shortly. The entire time Jack is gone the Reverend is worried that Jack won’t come back. It upsets Glory to see how agitated he gets. He finally returns and the Reverend, exhausted from worry, settles in for a nap. Jack asks Glory what kind of work a person can get in town. She doesn’t know.

Early the next morning, around 3am, Glory can’t sleep and thinks that she will go ahead and get breakfast started. Her father generally had a habit of waking around five o’clock so this wouldn’t be that much of a stretch. In a half hour he makes his way to the kitchen, but before he...