In His Eyes: A Civil War Romance by Stephenia H. McGee

Author:Stephenia H. McGee [McGee, Stephenia H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: God’s healing love, Civil War fiction, Christian Romance, 1800s Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Christian historical, Clean Read Historical
ISBN: 9781635640106
Publisher: By The Vine Press
Published: 2017-05-05T05:00:00+00:00

Tears streamed down Ella’s cheeks as she wiped the cool cloth over Lee’s heated face. He hadn’t eaten in hours, and refused each time they had tried to get him to suckle.

Ella made another pass around the nursery, past the bed Sibby watched her from, and back to the wash basin. It had been quite the task, but with help from Basil, she and Major Remington had managed to get Sibby upstairs once the medication had taken its effect and dulled the pain.

“Miss Ella, you gonna have to calm down,” Sibby said, interrupting her thoughts. “You bein’ like that ain’t helpin’ nobody.” Sibby pushed up on her elbows and adjusted the pillow behind her. Outside, the wind howled and banged against the window, as though it demanded entrance to the nursery.

Ella stopped her pacing and dropped the rag back into the basin. “I’m going for the doctor.”

Sibby’s eyes widened. “What for? So you can die out there in this here storm?”

“I have to do something!” Ella caught back her voice, the screech in it likely to draw the major from his chamber. At least he had not thrown her out. Nothing had been said about her outburst, and when the major finally retired some hours ago, it had been with concern on his features.

“I’m sorry, Miss Ella.” Sibby’s words were filled with an ache Ella did not wish to hear. “I knows how hard it is.”

Ella sniffed and wiped her sleeve across her face, not caring that she smudged the fine silk. She had an idea about what put so much pain into Sibby’s voice, and she didn’t want to hear more.

“We’s gonna make sure someone gets the doctor in the mornin’, Miss Ella. We is. But in the middle of the night, and in this storm…” She shook her head. “We just can’t go now.”

“But what if tomorrow is too late?” Ella whispered.

Sibby’s eyes brimmed with tears. “It won’t be. God won’t let me lose dis one too.”

Ella turned her face away, but Sibby kept talking. “I be knowing the terror you feel.”

She turned back to Sibby, not wanting to hear what she knew came next.

“I know because my Peter died of a coughing sickness with the Masta and Missus.” Sibby swallowed hard, and when her eyelids fell closed, tears slipped out from underneath her dark lashes.

Ella gripped Lee tighter. She shouldn’t ask. “The…the same sickness?”

Sibby’s eyes flew open. “Oh, now, we don’t know that. Look here. Maybe he just done breathed in too much of that rain.”

Oh, this was all her fault! If only she hadn’t run outside. Ella shook her head, the tightness in her throat making it difficult to breathe. “You are certain there is still a doctor around?”

Sibby’s gaze dropped to the covering across her lap. “He came out here before. I reckon he still be in town.”

Ella squeezed her eyes shut for a moment and then resumed her pacing. Lee coughed again, a deep sound that seemed impossible for one so small. “I’m sorry, Sibby.

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