Mr. Link Deas eventually received the impression that Helen was coming to work each morning from the wrong direction,
and dragged the reason out of her. “Just let it be, Mr. Link, please suh,” Helen begged.
“The hell I will,” said Mr. Link. He told her to come by his store that afternoon before she left.
She did, and Mr. Link closed his store, put his hat firmly on his head, and walked Helen home.
He walked her the short way, by the Ewells’. On his way back, Mr. Link stopped at the crazy gate.
“Ewell?” he called. “I say Ewell!” The windows, normally packed with children, were empty.
“I know every last one of you’s in there a-layin’ on the floor!
Now hear me, Bob Ewell: if I hear one more peep outa my girl Helen about not bein’ able to walk this road
I’ll have you in jail before sundown!” Mr. Link spat in the dust and walked home.
Helen went to work next morning and used the public road. Nobody chunked at her,
but when she was a few yards beyond the Ewell house, she looked around and saw Mr. Ewell walking behind her.
She turned and walked on, and Mr. Ewell kept the same distance behind her until she reached Mr. Link Deas’s house.
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