The Arrest

Dear Charles,
Have these strange men come around to your house and taken your dad away? Well yesterday they took mine away; they said something about our father stealing something. Not really sure on what he would steal; our father would have worked hard to earn anything. Though the ham bone and pork sausage we had was the most mouth-watering smell that has ever touched my nose.
"Will daddy ever come back?" I asked my mother, she didn't answer, and for the whole day she just sat by the fire and stared into the burning flames. …