Green Calder Grass by Janet Dailey

Author:Janet Dailey [Dailey, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2011-05-08T20:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The high and wide Montana sky was a startling blue, lit by a bright morning sun. A twin-engine Beechcraft bearing the Triple C insignia on its door sped down the runway. Buckled in the passenger seat across the aisle from Cat, Jessy gazed out the window at the rolling grassland whipping by.

Unlike Cat, she couldn’t summon any enthusiasm for this shopping trip to Dallas. Logic told her it was necessary, but as far as she was concerned, it was one of life’s unpleasantries that had to be endured.

With the engines roaring at full power, the plane’s nose lifted. A moment later the craft was airborne, the land falling away beneath it. Somewhere around eight hundred feet it began a banking turn to the south.

“I’ve been thinking,” Cat said.

“About what?” Jessy asked when Cat failed to continue.

“We will actually need two outfits. One for the auction, and another for the open house the day before.”

“What open house?” Jessy stiffened. “No one said anything to me about having one at The Homestead.”

“I don’t mean it literally. But a lot of the buyers will want to come the day before the auction to look over the sale stock and decide which they want to bid on. People will probably be coming and going most of the day. In that sense, it will be a bit less informal, but we still need to dress appropriately.”

There was that word again, Jessy thought with an inward sign, but she managed to joke, “I guess jeans and a shirt wouldn’t be appropriate.”

Cat laughed, as Jessy knew she would. “Don’t you wish.”

“Don’t I, though,” Jessy agreed with a rueful smile and automatically glanced out the plane’s window again. This bird’s-eye view of the land on which she was born was one she never tired of seeing. And she had cow-boyed for too many years not to instinctively watch for the unusual.

Intent on the ground, she almost missed the aircraft sweeping across the eastern sky. But its movement caught her eye. Leaning closer to the porthole, she took a second look then hurriedly unbuckled her belt and scrambled out of her seat.

“What’s wrong?” Cat frowned.

Jessy didn’t bother to answer as she made her way up the aisle to the cockpit. “Jack.” She tapped the pilot on the shoulder and pointed to his left. “Do you see that helicopter off your wing?”

He turned his head in that direction and nodded. “Got it.”

“Try to raise somebody at the ranch and tell them a helicopter is flying on a course toward the Wolf Meadow range.”

“Will do,” he promised and glanced at his copilot. “Get on the horn, Andy. Frank still might be in the hangar area.” Over his shoulder, he said to Jessy, “If we can’t get Frank, we’ll patch a call into headquarters.”

“Thanks,” she said and turned away.

The minute she stepped into the cabin, Cat’s eyes were on her, a mixture of curiosity and concern in her expression. “What’s wrong?”

“I spotted a helicopter that might be headed for Wolf Meadow,” Jessy explained, returning to her seat.

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