Dead Heat by Brooks Kathleen

Author:Brooks, Kathleen [Brooks, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-10-12T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Contrary to what Paige had feared, the morning flew by. The whole town had heard of the shot fired at her this morning and had come out in force to hear the story straight from the source. John Wolfe had been the first person in her shop followed quickly by Miss Edna. Miss Edna took it as a personal slight that John scooped her, and had left as soon as Paige had told her what happened. According to the people who came into the shop after that, Miss Edna was taking a slight lead on the number of people she regaled with the story.

The bell tinkled again and Paige looked up from the gift she was wrapping for one of her customers. Paige couldn’t keep the smile off her face if she tried. Mrs. Beauford Wyatt teetered in on her cane. Mrs. Wyatt had been in her eighties for as long as Paige had known her. The best way to describe Mrs. Wyatt was that she was born into the wrong century. She should be parading around a veranda back before the Civil War. Similarly to those times, Paige didn’t even know Mrs. Wyatt’s first name. Once she married her husband, Beauford, she became Mrs. Beauford Wyatt.

She was dressed in a billowy white muslin dress. A special order large brimmed black hat that Paige had made for her covered her white hair. Mrs. Wyatt never left the house without her ‘face on’ as she called it. She powdered it with white powder and applied layers of bright red lipstick. Her cane was black with a silver horse head on top. Her cane was more for show than necessity. She liked to be able to give someone a good thwack if they got in her way or ticked her off.

“Paige! Bless your heart and twice for good measure. What is all this distressing news I have heard about you getting shot at?” Mrs. Wyatt shooed some of Paige’s customers out of the way with her cane as she made her way, slowly and stately, to the counter.

“Mrs. Wyatt. It’s so good of you to come all the way into town to check on me.” Paige handed the gift wrapped package to her customer and walked around the counter to kiss Mrs. Wyatt’s wrinkled cheek.

“Nonsense. I had to check on the most famous and sought after hat maker according to the latest Town & Country magazine.” Mrs. Wyatt reached into her enormous purse and pulled out a copy of the magazine.

A model with long black hair stood on the front cover in a tight black dress and a scarlet red hat that Paige had made for the Derby. Paige opened the magazine cover and flipped to the cover story about her hats. There was a picture of her shop and a picture of her at the Derby with Mo accompanying the story about how she makes her hats. Pride and quite a bit of astonishment filled Paige as she looked over the story on the up and coming hat maker from Kentucky.

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