![]() ![]() The people of Cold Sassy disapprove of Rucker’s hasty marriage, and rumors spread quickly in the small town, but Will spends much time at the Blakeslee home and becomes friends with Miss Love. Rucker shocks everyone by arriving with his new bride, Miss Love. Will becomes a sensation after his near-death experience, and the whole town comes to his house to ask him about the incident. He survives by lying flat between the tracks so the train passes just overhead without touching him. ![]() He walks across a high, narrow train trestle and nearly dies when a train speeds toward him. On the afternoon of Rucker and Miss Love's elopement, Will sneaks off to go fishing in the country, despite the fact that he is supposed to be in mourning for his grandmother. ![]() Will thinks Rucker needs someone to look after him now that Mattie Lou is gone. He thinks Miss Love is nice and pretty, although she comes from Baltimore and therefore is practically a Yankee. Will Tweedy, Rucker’s 14-year-old grandson and the novel's narrator, supports his grandfather’s marriage. Rucker’s daughters, Mary Willis and Loma, worry about what the gossips of Cold Sassy will think of their father’s impropriety. This news shocks his family, since his wife Mattie Lou died only three weeks earlier. On July 5, 1906, Enoch Rucker Blakeslee announces that he intends to marry Miss Love Simpson, a milliner at his store who is years younger than he. ![]()
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