Merriweather Rides West by Lee Lejeune

Author:Lee Lejeune [Lejeune, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

They sat and talked until the sun went down. Then they went out and saddled the horses. While they were in the pasture, Running Deer’s wife Sophie suddenly appeared.

‘Don’t you worry about a thing, Miss Silversmith,’ she said. ‘I’ll look after the horses while you’re out yonder, and if you’ll leave the key with me I’ll look in on the house and make sure everything’s in apple pie order. That’s if you trust me.’

‘Why, sure I trust you,’ Marie said, ‘and thank you for the kind offer.’

Sophie looked at Jacob and marvelled. ‘You sure are tall, Mr Merriweather.’

‘Well, thank you, Mrs Running Deer. I didn’t do anything to deserve it. It’s just the way I grew.’

‘Well, the Great Spirit sure did a good job on you, sir.’ She moved closer to Jacob and looked up at him as though he was the Leaning Tower of Pisa. ‘Why are you taking Miss Silversmith on this crazy mission, sir?’’

Jacob shook his head. ‘I’m not taking her,’ he said. ‘She’s taking herself. It’s no use arguing with a determined woman.’

‘Well, you take good care of her, sir, you hear me!’

Jacob looked at her and smiled. She was a woman of some spirit, and he wondered how she and her husband had managed to accommodate to the white man’s world. It must have a taken a lot of grit. ‘Don’t you worry yourself, Mrs Running Deer. Everything’s going to be fine. I feel it in my bones.’

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.