Love Finds You in Wildrose, North Dakota by Tracey Bateman

Author:Tracey Bateman [Bateman, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Love Finds You in Wildrose: North Dakota
ISBN: 9781609365929
Publisher: Summerside Press
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

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Rosemary’s heart felt as though an anvil had fallen on it. She couldn’t imagine what Agnes and the children were going through. And what would Agnes do to make a living without her husband? At least the land belonged to them. Agnes had told her they’d proved up just a few months ago. That had to be a relief.

Baby Sarah started fussing just a couple of minutes from the Fischers’, so Rosemary did her best to calm her without stopping to feed her. When she grew close enough to see the house, there were three wagons in front and men were carrying belongings from the house. Agnes wept but didn’t try to stop them. Were she and the children moving away?

Rosemary yanked hard on the reins and the horses stopped. She lifted Sarah from the basket, and immediately her wails ceased. The baby was getting a little spoiled, but Rosemary couldn’t help that right now.

Agnes looked up and held out her arms when she spied Rosemary.

“Oh, Agnes, I’m so sorry. I would have been here sooner, but I just learned about Heinrich yesterday.”

“It is sad. So sad,” she said. “Your Rachel. My Heinrich.” She looked at Sarah and frowned. “This is Rachel’s baby?”

Rosemary smiled and relinquished the baby to Agnes’s open arms. “This baby does not look healthy. She is so small, and her skin and eyes…they do not shine.” She focused her gaze on Rosemary. “What has the wet nurse been eating? She is not making good milk for Rachel’s baby.”

“There is no wet nurse, Agnes. We have to feed her milk from the cow through a feeder Finn bought when Rachel was too ill to have any milk of her own.” She glanced about as the men continued to come and go. “Agnes, are you moving away from here? Did you sell your land?”

She shook her head as Marta joined them. She placed her arm around her mother. “It is good to see you again, Fräulein Jackson.”

“Thank you, Marta. What is happening?”

“My papa.”

Agnes snapped her head around and gave Marta a fierce stare. “Do not say bad things about your papa. Heinrich was very goot man and this vicked bank man haf swindled him.”

“What happened?” Rosemary still couldn’t make sense of the half sentences and poor English, which appeared to be worse when Agnes was upset.

“Tell her, Marta,” Agnes said.

“Papa…”

“Vas swindled by the vicked bank man.” Agnes waved her hanky toward Marta with one hand while she held Sarah with the other. “Tell her, Marta.”

“Mama, I will try to tell her. Please do not be so upset.”

Rosemary reached out and touched Marta’s arm. “Tell me.”

“Papa’s plow broke, as it had many times. It was old and very much repaired. The last time, Papa said we must have a new one for planting this season, so after harvest when it appeared we did not make enough to buy seed and food and shoes and materials for clothing, Papa went to the bank to ask for money.”

“For a loan?” Rosemary asked, her stomach sinking at the implication of what was coming.

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