July 15: SAYING GOODBYE: the neighborly Elizabeth How receives a visitor

Elizabeth How’s daughter is galloping by horse to Salem jail. Her father sits behind her. He’s fully blind, and his daughter has been bringing him to the jail twice a week to visit his wife.

As usual he has a leather bag of bread and butter for Elizabeth, plus money to pay her jail fees. Next time he’ll be empty-handed. What will he say? What can he say, except he’ll visit again, one more time?


Tomorrow in Salem: DARKNESS: a lunar eclipse