Karly: Leave Him There!
A kiss in an apple orchard, and you think you understand Ruth? She is a Danite! She is on mission! You get between Karly and her mission and she will cut your throat from ear to ear . . . because she loves you! Karly Anne Avard smoothed her dress as she rose to follow the woman into the study of her bishop’s home. She had been to all the seminaries, read the Quad, said all the prayers, and never drank a single cup of coffee! Now she was to enter the holy of holies, to receive her commission to minister to the gentiles from her bishop! Karly was an unassuming waif of a girl. A girl with glasses who never tried out for cheerleader, and she loved her church. Two men were waiting in the study with the bishop. Young men dressed in white shirts and black ties. As she entered and knelt in respect, one of the men went and locked the door behind her. She was an only child, her mother having suffered from cervical cancer right after she was born, and all hope of a l...