Honey's Grace by Indiana Wake

Author:Indiana Wake [Wake, Indiana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SweetBookHub
Published: 2019-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

It wasn’t entirely unusual for Honey to wander off and do her own thing on a Sunday afternoon. As always, her parents had guests coming after church. They were such open and sociable people and Honey had always felt blessed to be their daughter. It had often felt, over the years, that the Goodman place was a hub, a kind of center of attraction for those who had travelled over the Oregon Trail all those years before. It was like their lives were entwined and Honey had always felt the warm spirit of community such things brought with them. She couldn’t help but think that, despite all his obvious advantages in life, poor Marshall had missed out on other things; vitally important things that money couldn’t buy.

Hopefully, however, things were about to change for him; for them both. When Honey had been returning from Suki Reynolds’ home the afternoon before, she had found a young man hovering in the tree-lined pathway down to her family home.

At first, her heart had begun to beat and her palms to perspire, for she was starkly reminded of her own fear that night when she had believed herself to be entirely alone and at the mercy of the cowboys. But she quickly pulled herself together; it was still bright daylight and she was on horseback; this was not the same thing at all. And she had walked this pathway all her life, she wasn’t about to make herself afraid to carry on as she had always done.

As she drew nearer, the young man smiled up at her and she realized that she recognized him. Although the two had never spoken, she remembered seeing him sitting outside her father’s warehouse in the wagon waiting for the master’s son. It was the stable lad, Jimmy, the one who had offered to drive Marshall wherever he wanted to go.

After a couple of minutes conversation, Jimmy had handed her a note from Marshall. He’d obviously not wanted to go right down to the house, and she wondered if that was Marshall’s doing or if Jimmy was just being a little cautious. Either way, Honey was glad. Suki was right, she really had kept a secret from her parents, and she wanted to find her own way to tell them the truth. Having one of Kirby Thornhill’s stable lads turn up with a note for their daughter was certainly not the way forward as far as Honey was concerned.

But the note from Marshall asking her to meet him down by the lake for a picnic on Sunday afternoon had been a real treat. The paper was already soft from so much handling for she had taken it out and studied every word of it time and time again. And even though she had hardly slept a wink all night, Honey felt bright and full of energy. She had smiled her way through the church service that morning, singing the hymns with such gusto that her mother had looked sideways at her at one point.

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