Melody (Logan 1)

father's rowboat at dusk and watch the sky change

colors.

"It seemed magical," he said.

"It is."

There was real warmth in his eyes and I thought

the girls were right: he was good looking when he

wanted to be. Suddenly, though, he became selfconscious and quickly reverted to his serious, hard

look. However, after dinner when I helped him clean

up, he surprised me by suggesting we walk into town

with May for some frozen custard.

"And see what damage the outsiders are doing,"

he added.

"And what money they're leaving with the local

merchants," I added. He hid his smile, but I caught it. For the first time, when we walked with May,

he allowed her to hold both our hands. Cary led us a

different way that took us past high grass, bushes, and

scrub oak trees. I heard the peepers in the marsh. "Theresa and her brother and sisters and her

father live down there," he pointed when we turned a

corner.

I gazed at a street that wound east. The houses

were small and the grass in their yards was spotty and

rough. Closer to the town, the houses were nicer, with

real lawns and flowers, like yellow tea roses in a bed

of Queen Anne's lace, dark purple iris, and

hydrangeas.

The Cape was truly amazing. Toward the

ocean, there were rolls and rolls of sand that looked as

dry and sparse as any desert, but a short distance away

were oak trees, blueberry bushes, red maple trees, and

houses with lawns full of crocus clusters, emperor