Peter noticed that the parties in Smoky Hollow got a little wild on the weekends. There was even gunfire. He was afraid and I would have been too. He tried to stay out of the way. He went to Preacher's house for dinner. It was nice for him to get away with Cooper. Before the weekend was over a rumor had been started that Peter was a secret agent sent to spy on the bootleggers because federal agents had come to shut down the bootleggers. Frank, Jr., Mary's boyfriend. said that the bootleggers were planning to come kill him. This must have scared Peter because of what happened in the last town. Peter assured them that he was not an agent and they promised to protect him because he is family now. I wonder if it will be hard for Peter to leave because he has become a part of this family.
The rumor of Peter being a undercover agent spread to his wor place and he noticed that people treated him differently. Once the secret agents left town things got back to normal. Peter was in the grocery store with Mary and her monther and he heard a woman comment about the white man with the nigger woman. He had forgotten that he was white. He didn't notice the color of his skin or their skin, he noticed what was inside. He loved them for who they were not what color they were. Peter noticed that his family struggled to put food on the table while others outside of Smokey Hollow grew their own food. He came up with the idea to build a pig pen so they could raise pigs and have them for food. Pau Pau pitched in and they made pig pins and by fall had a lot of pork for the family.
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