1. But Ezra took another step forward.

2. Ezra stepped then stopped, breathing hard.

3. Ezra sagged back in his seat.

4. Ezra turned his head slowly to meet them.

5. Ezra put his finger on the photos.

6. Ezra opened the door and slipped through.

7. Ezra hopped into a phone booth beside the firehouse.

8. Ezra said, squinting now toward Monhegan Island.

9. Ezra unloosed the rope and pulled it in.

10. Ezra stepped from one foot to another.

11. He kept his eyes on Ezra, surveying him.

12. Ezra glanced through the dark to the fire station.

13. Alone on the streets,[sentencedict.com/ezra.html] Ezra turned his back.

14. Ezra dropped the mooring, the engine roared, the bow rose above the water and the land pulled away.

15. Ezra leaned against the sink and stared off into the middle distance.

16. Ezra did not back away when the water burst apart.

17. Ezra joined him wordlessly and stepped up to the opposite end of a full barrel and dragged it to the gangway.

18. Ezra stood on the sidewalk with the river and the mill over his shoulder.

19. In the corner of his eye Ezra saw the answer light, a blink in open water.

20. Still without a word Pearl brought Ezra to the tiny kitchen.

21. Ezra slid off the high bed and into his britches.

22. Ezra strode hard over the growing space between dory and raft and tumbled in.

23. He raised his eyes and stared Ezra full in the face.

24. Hattie Johnson cast an unthinking look at Ezra, her nine-year-old boy.

25. Ezra could feel the breath of the girl behind him.

26. Ezra had never known him to take or even talk about such chances.

27. A lone man was walking by and Ezra lowered his window and leaned out and asked the way to the cemetery.

28. At his full height, Varney was a head taller than Ezra.

29. One at a time as they turned the bend, Ezra watched their faces stretch.

30. And it was Morrill who went to Clayt three years ago and asked that Ezra be allowed to matriculate.