After the Parade by Dorothy Garlock

Author:Dorothy Garlock [Garlock, Dorothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Historical, Adult, FIC027050
ISBN: 9781568958903
Google: hT43AQAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0792728998
Barnesnoble: 0792728998
Goodreads: 7453700
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 1999-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Kathleen thought that Johnny would go with Marie, but he lingered and finally sat down.

“Did you find out anything about Isabel?”

“Couldn’t get anything out of the nurse. I’ll have to ask Jude.”

Silence settled down in the reception room so that the closing of a door in the back of the clinic sounded aggressively loud in the stillness.

“Marie was telling me about Bobby Harper,” Kathleen said when she could stand the silence no longer. “She said that he was a gunner in the air force. He came home about the same time you did.”

“He was just a kid when I left.”

“Evidently he was old enough for the service. Marie said he enlisted when he got out of high school.”

“Are they keeping company?”

“She didn’t say. Why? Don’t you approve of him?”

“I don’t know him and, besides, it isn’t any of my business who she keeps company with.”

“Oh, Johnny,” Kathleen said wearily. “You try so hard to distance yourself from anyone who cares about you.”

Before he could reply, Barker and Mack Boone came in, followed by Pete and Marie.

“Daddy, I told Bobby we’d come back for him tomorrow, but I don’t know how he can ride in a car with that leg in a cast.”

“We’ll think of something. Right now I’ve got to go tell his folks what happened.”

“I completely forgot about that. Mrs. Harper should have been told right away.”

’Take the truck back, Mack.”

“I can take Marie with me, Mr. Fleming.”

“Marie will go with me,” Barker said, dismissing him. “And thanks for your help.”

Mack left. Johnny knew that he was seething. His face was as easy to read as a road map.

“I’ve talked Theresa into coming and having supper with us,” Pete announced. “How about it, Marie? Come have supper with us. We’re all going over to Jude’s. Johnny and I will take you home before we go back to the ranch.”

Johnny looked at Pete and, for once, surprise showed in his expression. No one seemed to notice but Kathleen. Her heart beat high in her throat as she waited for Johnny’s reaction.

“Oh, I don’t know—” Marie fumbled for words, her dark expressive eyes traveling between her father and Johnny.

“You’ll be well chaperoned by big brother here,” Pete urged. “What’a ya say?”

Barker waited for his daughter’s decision.

“All right. I’d like to go, if it’s all right with you, Daddy.”

“Johnny?” Barker looked at his tall son.

“I’ll see her home,” Johnny said, his mouth very grimly set. Again, none of the others seemed to notice.

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