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 night. I’ll have to go to the village yet and borrow an axle somewhere.

Maybe we’ll turn back yet and you could take my wagon.

Where were you bound for—here, really? Did you have some business here?

&ensp;(smiling slyly) Not certain yet. Maybe we can do the business here. What do they call you?

Not familiar to you. Mordcha Gadaliah is my name—after a grandfather.

And I am Benjamin Minshitzer.

From Minshitz—as far as that!

We left yesterday after midnight and have been on the way ever since.

With my horse I wouldn’t have gotten as far as that.

How old is your daughter?

Already sixteen years, no Evil Eye, and as clever and handy as her mother, may she rest in Paradise.

Why do you praise me so, papa?