On the way to Tom Robinson’s, Atticus told them what had happened.
They turned off the highway, rode slowly by the dump and past the Ewell residence, down the narrow lane to the Negro cabins.
Dill said a crowd of black children were playing marbles in Tom’s front yard.
Atticus parked the car and got out. Calpurnia followed him through the front gate.
Dill heard him ask one of the children, “Where’s your mother, Sam?”
and heard Sam say, “She down at Sis Stevens’s, Mr. Finch. Want me run fetch her?”
Dill said Atticus looked uncertain, then he said yes, and Sam scampered off. “Go on with your game, boys,” Atticus said to the children.
A little girl came to the cabin door and stood looking at Atticus. Dill said her hair was a wad of tiny stiff pigtails, each ending in a bright bow.
She grinned from ear to ear and walked toward our father, but she was too small to navigate the steps.
Dill said Atticus went to her, took off his hat, and offered her his finger. She grabbed it and he eased her down the steps.
Then he gave her to Calpurnia. Sam was trotting behind his mother when they came up.
Dill said Helen said, “‘evenin’, Mr. Finch, won’t you have a seat?” But she didn’t say any more. Neither did Atticus.
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