Romance Rides the Range by Reece Colleen L

Author:Reece, Colleen L.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Here’s a little lost lamb, Miz Hawthorne. Something’s troubling her. Open your home and your heart. She can’t pay much but needs help.

Joseph

Gratitude flooded through Sarah. A verse from Isaiah came to mind. “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” Even before she asked God to guide her as the train approached Denver, He had already prepared Joseph’s heart to give aid when Sarah needed it most.

Over lemonade and cookies she threw caution to the winds and told Miz Hawthorne who she was and why she had fled St. Louis. “I’m down to almost nothing,” she confessed. “I must find work. Do you know of anyone who can use me? I am strong and willing to do anything that’s decent.”

Miz Hawthorne shook her head. “I don’t know of anything. If you’re willing to help me out here, I can give you room and board, but that won’t get you to California.”

“I can sell my mother’s wedding ring if I have to,” Sarah told her. “But it’s my last resort.”

“Indeed it should be!” The old lady snorted. “Before you do anything like that, let me see what I can find out.”

A few days later, after Sarah had pounded the streets looking for work and found nothing, her landlady bustled into the kitchen where Sarah was finishing a mountain of dishes. She triumphantly waved a piece of paper. “A friend gave me the address of an employment office not far from here.” She beamed. “There’s a Girls Wanted sign in the window. Hurry yourself on over there before the positions are filled.”

Sarah quickly changed from work clothes into her mother’s Sunday-go-to-meeting dress. She plaited her red gold hair, wound the braids around her head, and topped them with her mother’s old black hat. Heart beating with anticipation, she ran to within a block of the employment agency then slowed and regained her composure. It would never do to burst into an office red-faced and out of breath. “Please let the sign still be there,” she murmured when she reached her destination.

It was. The door stood open. Should she knock or just walk in? Sarah had never faced this situation before so she tapped lightly and hesitated on the threshold. A masculine voice called, “Don’t just stand there. Come on in.”

A twinge of annoyance straightened Sarah’s spine. A rather discourteous way to greet one. She lifted her chin and walked inside. Once she had a job, there would be no call for her to put up with such rudeness.

A well-dressed man about Tice Edwards’s age sat with his feet propped on an untidy desk. He stared at her then stood. His belly bulged over a fancy, too-tight belt. “Well, and what have we here?” His teeth gleamed in the travesty of a smile. “Sit down. Sit down.”

The look in his eyes reminded Sarah of Tice. It made her uncomfortable, but the need for a job overrode her desire to turn and run.

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