Etta's Fast House 13 HERE WE GO AGAIN The following evening, Ms. Etta’s Fast House was half empty, mostly due to an article written on the front page of the Comet newspaper. It warned the Negro citizens to stay off the streets until tempers calmed on both sides of the color lines. Etta knew it was the smart thing to do although it hit her where it hurt, in the cash register. “Looks like it’ll be another slow one tonight,” she told Penny, as they took the opportunity to inventory her stock of bourbon, whiskey and rum behind the bar. “Yes, ma’am, I expect it’ll be this way until the fellas get good and settled into that police training,” Penny replied, after giving it much thought. “City folk sho’ can be mean as rattlesnakes when things go changing on them.” “That’s the problem. Change has a way of scaring them something awful. Things staying the same, now that frightens the hell out of me.” Penny wasn’t sure exactly what that meant so she went right back to counting bottles and tallying the stock, until Henry came strolling through the door behind M.K.
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