Letty Lurch and the twins, Larry and
Linda, arrived at the Knoxville bus station just in the nick of time. Although
she had tried to disguise her condition
with a muff, Letty was heavy with child.
Two concerned fellow passengers whisked
Letty to the hospital.
...still whisking.
Letty gives birth to a bouncing baby
Lurch.
The good citizens of Knoxville are
outraged that they have been harboring a deadbeat dad in their midst. They demand that
Loxley Lurch a.k.a. "Pat Pending" be found. Officer Flagg vows to track him like a
dog.
But where is Loxley? What could have
persuaded this upstanding man to abandon his family and go into hiding?
Apparently (under the influence of
his nefarious cousin Lazarus) Loxley has incurred a rather unfortunate
gambling debt, and the Caco gang is determined to
collect. The chip on the nose was just a warning of things to come!
He's been hiding out at the old
Converse place near Gatlinburg, trying to keep his family safe from the mob and
earn a little money to pay off his debt!
Who would have believed that a
little hard work could raise enough cash to get the Caco mob off his back AND have a little
left over?
As soon as he hears the good news,
Loxley rushes to the hospital to see the baby Letty has decided to name
"Irene"--not a usual Lurch name, but Loxley
is too happy to care. So what if he's been gone for 554 days? If Loxley were
good at math, he wouldn't have gotten
himself into gambling trouble in the first place.
Reunited at last! With the extra
money he made doing chores on the farm, Loxley has invested in one of the
popular food trucks. Who knows where the Lurches will go next?
