Page 79 - Unseen Hands by Nona Freeman
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It Came to Pass
this opportunity to bring reproach on them.
One kilometer from the church, they saw panting run
ners waving them to a halt. "Stop!" they said. "You must not go to the chiurch. As everyone waited for you there, suddenly the police came, waving batons, yelling, and kicking over benches. They hit a few people, and the crowd fled."
"Instead," someone added, "you must go to the home of your friend Tirimesh. She has prepared a wedding sup per for you."
Tekle and Erkenesh celebrated the beginning of their life together peacefully, in the midst of friends and loved
