Love and Cherish by Dorothy Garlock

Author:Dorothy Garlock [GARLOCK, DOROTHY]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FIC027050
ISBN: 9780759522701
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2001-04-11T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

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When the sun went down, the wind came up and whipped the snow around the cabin. Beside the warm fire, Cherish sat with the men, Orah Delle asleep on her lap. Sloan told True and Juicy about meeting her on the trail, about Mote and Seth, about finding her brother, Roy, in the river.

He told about meeting up with Pierre.

“Pierre said give you a hello and that he’d try to be here by Christmas.”

“I knowed he was out thataway. Don’t it jist beat all ya crossin’ paths like ya done?” True was whittling again. His long fingers and the knife were forming a piece of white wood into something that looked like a curved two-pronged hairpin.

“Ain’t so surprisin’,” Juicy said. “Iffn there be a skirt in five mile, Pierre’d know of it.”

Cherish failed to see the warning glance Sloan gave Juicy before he resumed his story about the greenhorn minister and his flock heading for Harrodsburg. At this point Juicy had plenty to say.

“Harrumpt!” he snorted. “If that ain’t the beatin’est I ever heared of. I jist betcha a two-bit chaw of tobaccy they lost their hair a’ready. I can’t figure out John Harrod a-tellin’ ’em ta come on without no guide or nothin’.”

“Harrod’s awfully anxious to make a town,” Sloan said seriously. “A preacher and a church will draw people.”

“Harrumpt!” Juicy snorted. “Preacher ain’t goin’ to draw no folks iffn his skin’s hangin’ on a tree and he ain’t in it.”

Cherish’s worried eyes were going from one man to the other and Sloan decided it was time to change the subject.

“Pierre told me that Daniel Boone’s back in Boonesborough. He said that Chief Blackfish let him go after he ran the gauntlet. The men captured with him were sent to Detroit to be ransomed by the British. A lot of folks think there is something fishy about Daniel being the only one to come back. Some say he plans to turn his fort over to the Shawnee. I don’t believe it for a minute, but some folks would find fault with the Lord if it suited their purpose.”

“I jist can’t think folks ’ud be that stupid . . . harrumpt!”

“Daniel is insisting on a trial to clear his name.”

Sloan went on to tell about killing the two Hurons, including Cherish’s part in it.

“I was surprised by the Hurons,” Sloan admitted. “It was the Cherokee I expected. I’m not worried overly much about an attack here. They’re too afraid of the Shawnee. Have you seen anything of John Spotted Elk?”

“Ya,” Juicy nodded. “He an’ his sister an’ the ol’ chief was a campin’ ta other side of the river. Had a big mess of Injins with ’em. John and that thar Minnie Dove came by one noon. That Minnie Dove was claimin’ ya was here when I said ya warn’t. Threatened ta cut off my nose with her knife.” Juicy stopped to laugh. “John got so mad he boxed her ears, ’cause she acted up so.” Now Juicy laughed uproariously.

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