Grace's Dream by Agnes Alexander

Author:Agnes Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press
Published: 2015-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

The Cramer family sat around the supper table when Juliette put on her pouty smile and said, “Daddy, I want you to run Jed Wainwright out of town.”

Hal almost choked on a mouthful of cornbread. “What the heck are you talking about, baby?”

“I saw him and his wife going into the hotel dining room this morning. He looked at me and laughed.”

“I’m sure he wasn’t laughing at you, Juliette,” Her mother said.

“I just know he was because uppity Amelia waved at me then said something to him. That’s when he laughed. It upset me because I’m just as important as she is in this town. Maybe more important. After all, I’m not married to a half-breed”

Hal couldn’t believe his ears. “Jed may be a half-breed, but he’s an important man. You must have misunderstood his laugh, sweetheart.”

“No, daddy, I didn’t. Now, will you run him out of town?”

“Juliette, there’s no way in the world I could run a man like Jed Wainwright out of town.”

“Why not, Daddy? You’re a powerful lawyer in Settlers Ridge.”

“I might have a little influence here, but I’m not near as powerful as Jed Wainwright. If anybody had the power to run someone out of town, it would be him. Besides that, if Jed Wainwright wasn’t around here Settlers Ridge would become a ghost town.”

“Who cares if it does? I don’t like this town anyway.”

“Juliette!” Marjorie Cramer looked shocked. “How can you say such a thing about your hometown?”

Juliette shrugged. “I only came back here until I decided where I wanted to live. I sure don’t intend to live in Settlers Ridge forever. If I can convince Lance to marry me, I’ll make him move to some place more exciting. Somewhere like Saint Louis or New York or Boston. I’m sure Amelia thinks Boston is a fancy town since she went to school there.”

Hal couldn’t help chuckling. “Lance Gentry would be as out of place living in New York or Boston as I would.”

“I don’t see why.” Juliette stuck her mouth out. “He’s handsome and charming and smart. People would soon see that about him. He’d be fine if I just got him away from here.”

Marjorie looked at her daughter as if she couldn’t believe the things Juliette was saying. “I’m beginning to wonder if sending you to that school in Saint Louis was a big mistake.”

Juliette threw down her fork. “I hate you for saying something like that to me, Mama! I learned to be a real lady in school, and I’m not going to let some unimportant little western town turn me into an old unimportant nobody like you are.”

For the first time since she’d returned from school, Hal’s voice was sharp with his daughter. “Don’t you talk to your mama that way, Juliette Cramer!”

“Well, she is an old woman who doesn’t know what’s going on in this world. She’s as far behind as every other old woman in town. Surely a smart man like you sees that, Daddy.”

Marjorie didn’t say anything, but tears filled her eyes.

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