Word: relicts
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Widow Cagle, moonshiner's relict, hated Yankees and Yankee laws. The War was a Yankee war? she couldn't see why her only son, newly married, should go off and fight in it?fight in this queer place, France, that she thought of as a few miles away from Asheville. But he goes?and is killed. So far, the tragedy is moving, individual and complete. And then comes an act of creaky melodrama?the son of old Pappy Cagle's slayer (a former revenooer) turns up as a deserter from the army?the Widow is about to kill him?business...