A Gideon Johann Boxed Set Book 1 - 4 (A Gideon Johann Western 0) by Boehm Duane

Author:Boehm, Duane [Boehm, Duane]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Frontier & Pioneer, Western Classic, Old West, Western, Western Romance, Cowboys, Men's Adventure
Publisher: Duane Boehm
Published: 2016-03-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Sarah loaned Abby her mother’s blue sapphire ring to wear for the wedding and Joann insisted that Abs wear the brooch that Gideon had given her. Winnie, upon seeing that the others were giving her mother jewelry to wear, had made sure that her momma wore the Indian bead necklace that she had given to Winnie. The irony was not lost on Abby that the necklace had been given to her by Gideon when they were teenagers. He had traded for it with the Indians that used to come to town and she had passed it down to her daughter in one of her moments of banishing all things Gideon from her life, never telling anyone of its origin.

Abby’s parents and her brother Tom and his wife were seated on one side of the church. They sat perfectly straight and stiff–backed, doing their best to pretend not to notice that they were in a church with Mary in attendance. Mary, Doc, and Sarah sat on the opposite side, hunched over and whispering to each other before the ceremony started. An occasional laugh would escape from them. Gideon stood watching in the front of the church, smiling at the comical difference in behavior on the two sides of the aisle.

Gideon had bought a new coat for the wedding and Ethan and Benjamin were in their usual Sunday attire. Zack had borrowed Ethan’s other coat and though it fit him height and length wise, the accommodations for Ethan’s additional brawn made the young man look lost in it. Abby had purchased an off–white dress for the occasion and had been able to get a seamstress to sew matching blue dresses for Joann and Winnie on short notice.

Abby walked down the aisle followed by her two daughters. After they had taken their places, Ethan addressed the small audience. “Welcome, everybody. I am about to tell a story that everybody here knows, but I want us all to reflect on the grace of God in today’s culmination of a most remarkable year for many of us. My son Benjamin saved a man’s life by finding him dying in the woods and that man turned out to be my best friend Gideon, gone these past eighteen years. In the ensuing months, Gideon found himself and saved my son. He also got to experience the joys of being a father. And now today, we are here to celebrate the wedding of Gideon and Abby in the knowledge that true love never dies. No matter all the circumstances that led to today, I cannot help but to find God’s hand in all of this. It is a blessed day,” he said.

Ethan stuck to his traditional wedding ceremony from there. Sarah, Mary, and even Doc let out hoots and hollers when he said, “You may kiss the bride.” And everybody, including Abby’s family, clapped when Ethan introduced the new couple.

Mary, caught up in all the excitement, turned to Doc and said, “If you weren’t so darn old, I’d marry you in a heartbeat.

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