One-Eyed Cat - Tapa blanda

Ned Wallis, a minister's son in a Hudson Valley town in the 1930s, accidentally wounds a cat with his new air rifle, is befriended by an old neighbor, and must deal with the care required by both

nows he's forbidden to touch the rifle in the attic. But he can't resist sneaking it out of the house, just once. Before he realizes it, Ned takes a shot at a dark shadow.
When Ned retums home, he's sure he sees a face looking down at him from the attic window. Who has seen and heard him?
Ned's feelings of guilt and fear only get worse when one day, while helping an elderly neighbor, he spots a wild cat with one eye missing. Could this be the thing Ned shot at that night? How can Ned bring himself to reveal his painful secret?