under-the-eaves

Updated: May 9, 2025

The vagrant toiled two weeks at his heavy task and when the man Jose was about again the volunteer slipped away without farewell. He left on the table of his under-the-eaves bedroom in the Jose house all the pay he received for his work, to the last penny. "He wasn't what he seemed to be," ran the burden of Mrs. Jose's various disquisitions on this strange guest.

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