Running Fox by Cassie Edwards

Author:Cassie Edwards [Edwards, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-01-21T22:01:09+00:00

Chapter 17

The storm had passed. The sky was now clear and a lovely azure blue as Running Fox gazed up at it through his smoke hole.

Then he looked at Nancy, as she still lay in a deep sleep.

When she moaned softly, then slightly turned her head, Running Fox's heart skipped a beat. It seemed she was about to awaken.

But again she lay quiet and still, her eyes closed. Not far away from where she lay were her broken eyeglasses.

Running Fox examined the twisted frames and broken glass.

Only now did he think about what having broken them would mean to Nancy. She had generously given her other pair to the child, which meant that she herself no longer had a way to see.

He glanced toward the closed entrance flap.

Should he go to the child's mother and tell her the dilemma?

No.

He could not do that.

He would never forget the joy, the wonder, in Tiny Doe's eyes, when she had realized that she could see — truly see — for the first time in her life.

Running Fox would not take that away from her, nor would Nancy want him to. She had enjoyed giving of herself to the child and seeing the joy that her gift had brought into the child's heart and life.

Knowing Nancy so well now, Running I ox knew that she would go around half blind herself before taking back the gift of sight that she had given to Tiny Doe.

“ What shall we do? ” he whispered to himself, again gazing lovingly at Nancy.

Of course, there was only one thing they could do — after she was well enough. They would have to meet with Doc Harris again, for he had said that he would always have spare eyeglasses for Nancy.

But Running Fox knew that each time he wandered far from his village with Nancy the risk of being caught with her was strengthened considerably.

If her stepfather saw her with Running box, or if any white man who would have heard of her disappearance saw her with a red man, Running Fox would not only be placing himself in danger for having abducted her, but his people, as a whole would suffer.

“ Running Fox! ” Nancy gasped, reaching out toward him. “ Running Fox, sit down beside me so that I can touch you. ”

Running Fox did as she asked, then noticed something different in the way she looked at him now — different from the way she usually looked at him when she was not wearing her eyeglasses.

Nancy swallowed back a sob of joy as she ran her fingers slowly over his face, stunned almost speechless that she could actually see his features clearly — and she didn't have her eyeglasses on!

“ I can see, ” she exclaimed, taking one of his hands and gripping it hard. “ Running Fox, what happened? I can see you — not only your shadow — and I don't have my eyeglasses on. ”

Then pain shot through her head.

She reached up and felt the lump on the side of her head.

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