““One morning while drinking coffee with Amos, Daniel Haws looked up suddenly, as if feeling the boy’s eyes on him, and said: “Tryin’ to burn holes starin’ like that?” “Guess I was just resting my eyes on you so as not to look at your wallpaper,” Amos gave a sour apology. Daniel closed the book he was reading, a volume of Rhodes’s history of the United States, and took a careful look at the kitchen wallpaper. “Yes,” he admitted, “that wallpaper is goddam ancient.””
