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The Stuart family sat in the front pew, as numerous citizens from Samara City filed into the back of the church. The invisible form of eleven-year-old Clara stood against the windows, watching in wonderment as Baptists and Mormons alike came in to take a seat. Mr. and Mrs. Hurley from Hurley’s Grocery and Drugstore were there. Mel Johns, owner of the Sinclair service station came in behind Mr. Harker, the Mormon Bishop. In fact, everyone that Clara knew seemed to be in attendance. She heard a couple of the women whisper such things as, “It is such a shame,” or “Oh, my God, what a tragedy.” But when she heard Katie Abbott’s mother whisper to her eleven-year-old daughter, “Poor Mabel Stuart,” Clara swung around and looked at her family sitting in the front row.

She could see her mother and father, Grandfather Stuart, Benjamin, Jason, and Emily and herself all sitting there as if they had been crying. In addition to the tears, the two things that amazed invisible Clara most of all were the fact that her two brothers were not fidgeting in their seats, and that she and Emily were sitting next to each other. Suddenly she realized that Sara was nowhere to be found, and it was then that Clara saw the tiny casket sitting up near the front of the church. Standing there invisible, she began to cry.