Abram's Daughters 04 The Prodigal by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-01T12:05:45.671000+00:00

I c:ili nodded her head, eyes still glistening. "We mustn't MinIi inio something you'd surely regret later."

"And you don't think we should ask Dat or Aunt Lizzie In ml i his?"

"Not just yet, no."

Sadie, though terribly frustrated, began to slowly undernl.uuJ the reasoning behind Leah's words. At least in this soltiiiii moment she did. Later today she did not know how impulsive she might feel, how eager she might be to hitch up (lit- horse to the buggy and drive over to the Masts' orchard

I ii ii isc to tell Jake the good news that his real mother had i (uiio to take him home, where he belonged.

Ach! I mustn't do any such thing! She imagined the potenii.il scene she would make with Jake's family, his close twin, till 11is older siblings and him. Sadly she began to think that

II .he iruly loved her flesh and blood, she might need to leave ! I nin in ignorance, never knowing he was the illegitimate child nil one of the Ebersol cousins his family had shunned.

As they rose and walked back toward the main road, Sadie hiiinight of the night she had told Leah of her youthful pregin.iiK y and how the roles on this day were, in a peculiar way, li|inic reversed. Today it had been for Leah to share the truth hli.ii Sadie's own son was very much alive, instead of Sadie lli'vi.'iiling her secret about the wee babe growing inside her. I'lluly, this child of hers had been veiled in secrecy from the llliiR' of his earliest beginnings.

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1 he days slid together, hot and muggy, the mid-July heat rising like a deep green tide in the open pasture. The intolerable temperatures brought with them sultry, restless nights for all the residents of the Ebersol Cottage, particularly Leah and Sadie, who had agreed that, for now, it was best Jake not be told of his true family roots. At only sixteen, he was tot) young for such jolting news, they reasoned, and the strained relations between their two families only compounded the problem.

Leah was prayerful, even watchful over her sister, hoping Sadie might somehow manage the emotional trauma she was now experiencing with some seemliness, keeping her feelings in check, at least while in the presence of other family members. And even though Sadie and Leah had endured several rather tense days, going so far as to exchange angry words in the vegetable garden one afternoon, Leah was quite sure no one suspected them of having had a fuss over something as earthshaking as Jake Mast's being Sadie's son. Such a secret to keep!

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Wilh tomorrow a "no-church" Sunday, this Saturday nii;lii vv;is an evening when most courting couples were out ililinc; together. The traditional arrangement ensured their ii.iyihj.! out all hours didn't cause stress in the family if the il.uik'likT or son of a household decided to sleep in a bit on ' 'iiiuliiy morning.

I laving hunger pangs in the middle of the night, Leah i irpi downstairs for a glass of milk and a cookie when she li.

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