A Bride for Dry Creek by Janet Tronstad

Author:Janet Tronstad
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2001-11-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

The café wasn’t open yet so Flint had to content himself with taking Francis to the hardware store. It was nearly impossible to date someone in a place like Dry Creek. Especially when the woman you were dating didn’t know you were courting her. All this talk of crime didn’t set a very romantic mood. And a hardware store! There wasn’t even a dim light anywhere. At least not one that wasn’t attached to a fire alarm.

Flint was tempted to ask the clerk behind the counter if he could borrow the small radio he had plugged in by his stool. They might get lucky and hear a country-and-western love song. But the clerk was Matthew Curtis, a minister who had recently gotten married and was probably in some romantic haze of his own.

Matthew had married Glory Becker, the woman who had become famous locally as the flying angel in Dry Creek’s Christmas pageant. Flint hadn’t been in Dry Creek then, but he’d read reports. He’d even heard the gossip about how the angel had brought the minister back to God. A man like Matthew wasn’t likely to let folks listen to anything but hymns, and that sure wouldn’t help a man’s courting.

But that wasn’t the only reason Flint hesitated. Flint was reluctant to ask a minister for anything, even a minister who was now a clerk in a hardware store. Flint half expected the man to question him about the Bible Flint still carried with him. Flint knew he could have left the book in the pickup he had borrowed from the inspector, but he didn’t. He liked having his grandmother close by—wished she were here now with her brusque no-nonsense approach to life.

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