Shane Thorne watched her with amusement, deliberately asking, "Why?"
Nancy Thorne pouted. "Ms. Spann helped Ulysses Spann tell me off, and she told Wade Golding's family to steal Mr. Hawthorne's land, and she reported our family for raising rabbits. She's rotten to the core. I hate her."
"Jacqueline Spann was the one who put them up to grabbing the land? How do you know that, Nancy?"
"Mr. Hawthorne said so. She's the one who did it! She and her mother are both bad people. A rat's child is born to dig holes—they're two of a kind!" Nancy Thorne huffed indignantly, making everyone laugh.
Preston Thorne and his wife exchanged a thoughtful look. Nancy Thorne might just be a child, but her words held some truth. It was rare for a bad bamboo stalk to produce a good shoot. With parents of such poor character as Phoenix Golding and Vernon Spann, how good could their daughter, Jacqueline, really be?
