A Christmas Miracle: Forty-Sixth in a Series of Jess Williams Westerns (A Jess Williams Western Book 46) by Robert J. Thomas

Author:Robert J. Thomas [Thomas, Robert J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Kindle converts
Publisher: Robert J. Thomas
Published: 2015-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

When Andy and Jess returned to town, they stopped the horses by the livery. Jess saw that the glass on six of the oil lamps had been painted green and white. He rode over to one and looked at it closer. The lamp wasn’t lit, so it didn’t really show him what it would look like in the dark. He saw Woodson and Jacob walking with four more of the lamps that were painted. Jess rode over to where they were hanging one of them.

“Hi Jess, how do you like it?” asked Jacob.

“I don’t rightly know,” he replied scratching his stubbly chin. “What’s the paint for?” Woodson climbed down from the stool.

“I painted the outside of the glass with a very thin coat of paint so that at night, when they’re lit, they’ll glow green and red instead of just yellow,” he explained.

“Will people be able to see good enough?” queried Jess.

“Yes, which is why I only put a very thin coat of paint on the glass,” he replied. “I promise you it will look nicer, especially during Christmas.”

“Alright,” agreed Jess. “Me and Tony are going to take the wagons to the town hall and unload everything since we’ll need them to go out and bring people to the supper on Christmas.”

“Alright, and we’ll have the rest of these lamps painted before dark,” said Woodson.

Jess stabled his horses and Tony helped him hitch up the two wagons. They walked the horses over to the town hall and stopped outside the front porch. Jim and Sara walked out to see what the commotion was all about.

“We’re gonna need some help unloading these wagons,” Jess told him.

“I’m so excited to see what you have,” Sara said gleefully. Jim waved at some men, who came over and helped them unload all the things in the wagons. Once they had it all inside, Jim and Sara looked at all the toys.

“Oh my, there’s going to be a gift for every child,” she said as she moved to the trunks and began opening them. When she saw all the clothing, shoes and boots, she put her hand over her mouth.

“Jim, look at all these things,” she told him as she pulled out a jacket that would fit a child. Jim pulled out a pair of boots that would fit a small boy. He turned to see Jess smiling at them.

“You’re really going to make a lot of people very happy,” said Jim with excitement coursing through him. “We collected up some things from my two stores, but nothing compared to all this. That was some luck you had running into those people who made all these things.” Jess looked at Jim strangely.

“I don’t think luck had much to do with it,” he implied. “I think this was meant to be.”

“You know, maybe someone bigger than all of us had a hand in this,” suggested Sara. Jim and Jess exchanged glances and then smiled at Sara.

“Maybe,” they said in unison. Sara looked through the trunks some more.

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