Chapter 6, Captain Dusty:
Melinda ran through the grain field, she grew too mature to be playing hide and find with her younger brother. But her mother sent her outside to occupy him. She knew there would be trouble if he was found tied to one of the fruit trees. Instead, she devised a game where her younger brother, Jorge, would go hide, and Melinda would need to find him. She just didn’t have any intentions of looking. Once he ran toward the barn to hide, she lit off in the opposite direction, into the nearest field of grain. The fields represented work to the children, not a place to play.
She ran her hands through the grain heads. Just by the feel, she understood they had at least two weeks until harvest. At which time they would need to work sunrise to sunset to bring in the grain a
