Across Five Aprils
Where does Jethro wish to go? What prevents him from going? Chapter 12
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Jethro wishes to go to Springfield where the President has been taken, but he cannot take any time off from work. "It was the saddest and most cruel April of the five. It had held out an almost unbelievable joy and had then struck out in fury at those whose hands were outstretched."