Lavinia and the children were nowhere to be seen, and even the shooting and the shouted news that Solomon Cohen’s child had lived—this time—wasn’t enough to make him take his eyes from the broken clay–tiled floor.
Again, no one had come for Sunday service. No one except his family, and you could hardly count them.
How would he feed his children without some funding? How could he pass a collection plate when there was no one there to hand it to?
They had their milk cow, still, and she was heavy with calf. She’d calve any day, and then they could be sure of having milk. But he couldn’t slaughter the calf until fall, until it had put on enough beef-weight to make it worthwhile. Lavinia had the few vegetables she could coax from the desert floor, but that was it.
This was indeed the wilderness, but there was no manna from heaven.
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