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Louisa Boddy paused again to shade her eyes and peer at the smoke. From the look of it, something was burning up there by the ford. At first she had thought of a range fire, but the smoke hadn’t spread. From time to time the column would grow thicker, and then it would die back to almost nothing only to rise again. There was this odd thing that happened when the smoke got high enough. It turned to cloud up there, and puffs would drift off until they evaporated and were gone. She hadn’t seen that before, and it made her wonder if maybe Crawley wasn’t burning something. But she couldn’t figure out what -- taking the whole afternoon and acting like that.