Copper Fire by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Author:Suzanne Woods Fisher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, inspirational, historical, world war 2, historical romance, inspirational romance, germany, suzanne woods fisher
Publisher: vinspirepublishing

Chapter Ten

The week after Thanksgiving, Elisabeth stopped coming home directly after school. She told me she was working on a school project at Tanya’s house. She returned in time for dinner every night. A good sign, I hoped. I was feeling somewhat encouraged about Elisabeth.

Well, until the end of the week, anyway.

That feeling vanished the moment I bumped into Tanya’s mother at the grocery store. “Thank you for having Elisabeth over so often,” I called out, waving to her over a stack of pears.

Tanya’s mother gave me a blank look.

“In the afternoons,” I prompted. “Elisabeth said that she and Tanya were studying together.”

Clearly, she had no idea what I was talking about. My heart sank.

“Mrs. Gordon,” she explained, “my Tanya comes to work with me every afternoon.”

That evening, as soon as Elisabeth burst in the kitchen door, I told her about meeting Tanya’s mother and asked her where she had been.

Her lips tightened. She fixed me with defiant eyes. “None of your beesvax,” was all that she said before running up the stairs and slamming the door.

“You should not let her talk to you that way,” snapped Aunt Martha. “I would’ve been drawn and quartered if I had spoken to my mother that way.”

“Aunt Martha, I didn’t let her talk to me that way. I will deal with it, but in my own way.” Open battles with Elisabeth never worked. Besides, I was trying to elicit information, not cause her to clamp her lips shut even tighter than they usually were.

“Your way is with a wet noodle,” she countered.

What did that mean?

“That child creates nothing but trouble, Louisa.”

I frowned, but that was a statement that I couldn’t deny. In fact, I had an odd sense of waiting for trouble to find us.

Perhaps, I thought, hatching a plan, I could ward it off.

“William, how is your spy log coming along?” I asked him as I tucked him into bed that night. “Anything interesting?”

“No. This town is boring.” That was another choice phrase he had adopted from Elisabeth. She said that everything and everyone in Copper Springs was boring.

I hated to ask him. I hated to stoop to this level. But…desperate times resorted to desperate measures. “Ever thought about spying on Elisabeth?”

He scrunched up his face as if he thought I had completely lost my mind. “Elisabeth?” There were moments, like this one, that William’s expressions looked remarkably similar to his father’s.

“Have you noticed that she doesn’t come home after school? She shows up in time for dinner.” I pulled the covers up to his chin. “Makes me wonder where she is in the afternoons.”

I hooked him. He decided to follow her directly after school the next day. I was a little nervous about what facts he might unearth, but I knew we needed to put a stop to this organizing habit, and I was running out of ideas.

The next day, William zoomed off on his red bicycle to meet Elisabeth after school. I kept peering out the parlor window anxiously, waiting to see what he might have found out.

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