Brides of Georgia by Connie Stevens

Author:Connie Stevens [Stevens, Connie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63409-282-1
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

Colton set the brake and tethered the team outside the mercantile, but before going inside to pick up his supplies, he jogged across the street to the Juniper Springs Sentinel office and bought two copies of the latest edition. He exchanged greetings with the editor, Jack McCaffey, and wandered out the door reading the headline.

COVINGTON PROMISES RAIL SERVICE IF ELECTED

Reading as he ambled back toward the mercantile, he collided with a man and dropped Clyde’s copy of the paper he’d tucked under his arm.

He jerked his head up. “Oh, excuse me. I’m sorry.”

The gentleman in the fine gray frock coat and silver brocade vest scowled and brushed imaginary dirt from his sleeve. “Watch where you’re going.” He straightened his silk maroon paisley cravat and proceeded to his waiting carriage, stepping on Clyde’s dropped newspaper in the process.

Familiarity rang in the man’s face and voice. Colton had seen him before but couldn’t recall when or where. The landau carriage, with its crest-adorned door and polished brass lamps, pulled away. Colton glanced up at the sign over the door the man had just exited. The land office.

“Not very polite, is he?”

Colton turned his attention to the one making the comment. Cyrus Fletcher, Juniper Springs’ only lawyer, sent a derisive frown after the carriage and bent to pick up the newspaper, brushing off some of the dirt before handing it back to Colton.

“Thanks.” Colton glanced at the soiled paper. It wasn’t ruined, but he switched it with the paper he’d been reading, intending to give the clean copy to Clyde Sawyer. “No, I’d say the gentleman definitely lacked manners. Do you know that fellow?”

Cyrus snorted. “I wish I didn’t. That’s Maxwell Rayburn, Esq.”

Colton pondered the name. “Wasn’t he that fancy attorney from Athens you went up against a time or two?”

“That’s right. That land right-of-way case a few years ago. Shelby Covington sued to prevent local farmers from using a trail they’d used for years because it went through the tract where he was building his brickworks. The farmers weren’t damaging anything—they were just passing through on their way to transport their harvested crops downriver. The trail was the easiest and straightest way, but Covington denied them access. Rayburn pulled a dirty trick or two out of his sleeve, the court ruled in Covington’s favor, and the farmers suffered.” Cyrus looked in the direction the fancy carriage had taken, then at the building Rayburn had exited. “Wonder what he’s doing up here.”

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