Bandit Queen by Jane Candia Coleman

Author:Jane Candia Coleman
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: fiction
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.

The snow began that night, burying the streets, the newly laid tracks, and the locomotive that had been ready to make its return trip. Everyone was stranded, but the party mood had taken over the whole town. Children were sliding down the hills on makeshift sleds, and men and women were out with shovels, brooms, whatever came to hand, flinging the snow into piles higher than my head. I fought my way through the drifts to the livery to find Joe and tell him about my arrangement.

“The money’s yours,” I said. “Just come in and get it every week.”

He grabbed my hands and did a kind of dance in the snow that was up to his knees. “You’re a damn’ fine partner,” he said, panting from the effort. “Ye-siree.”

When I got back to Lottie’s, I borrowed a pencil and a piece of paper and wrote a letter to my mother, telling her I was now running a boarding house and would soon have enough money to come home. Why did I lie? Maybe to convince myself, or maybe I simply couldn’t admit to defeat. Not then.

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