Savage Skies by Cassie Edwards

Author:Cassie Edwards
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781428511873
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.

Chapter Nineteen

A merry heart goes all the day,

A sad tires in a mile.

—Shakespeare

Shirleen found it hard to believe that Speckled Fawn was willing to place herself in danger to help her and her daughter Megan.

She still stared disbelievingly at the woman whom she had first mistrusted so much she would not even speak with her. Now she trusted Speckled Fawn implicitly. She had clear evidence of her kind and giving nature.

“No, I can’t allow you to take such a chance,” Shirleen suddenly blurted out. “What you are suggesting might not only get you killed, but also Megan.”

Speckled Fawn put her hand gently on Shirleen’s shoulder. “You want Megan back, don’t you?” she asked, gazing intently into Shirleen’s eyes.

“You know I do,” Shirleen said, returning the gaze. “But what you suggest doing is so . . . dangerous. You might never be able to return to this village. It would be horrible if that happened. I would blame myself, always.”

“Forget everything but your daughter’s welfare,” Speckled Fawn said. She took Shirleen by the hand and urged her to sit beside her, while Blue Thunder sat on Shirleen’s other side. “We must give this plan a try. I won’t have it any other way.”

“Shirleen, do you understand the plan?” Blue Thunder asked, impressed by Speckled Fawn’s eagerness to help.

He was beginning to see her in a different light and felt that he had been wrong to ignore her as he always had.

“Not altogether,” Shirleen murmured.

“Then let us go over it again so that you do understand it,” Blue Thunder said. “Speckled Fawn, myself, and my warriors will go to the fort under the pretense of needing to trade at the post there. We recently had a good hunt, so the pony soldiers will not think we are there for any other purpose than to trade. While we are making an actual trade, we will make sure that the man who is waiting for the riverboat with his child goes by the name Earl Mingus, and if the child’s name is Megan. If so, we will set Speckled Fawn’s plan in motion. She will go to the fort alone after my warriors and I leave. She will be dressed in the clothes of a white woman and will pretend to be a woman in distress.”

He looked around Shirleen and nodded at Speckled Fawn. “Speckled Fawn, you tell the rest, since you will be the one living it,” he said.

Speckled Fawn nodded and began speaking in a low voice as she continued telling Shirleen the plan. “As Blue Thunder said, I will arrive at the fort as a woman in distress. I will say that I am the only survivor of a Comanche attack on my cabin. I will say that my husband and child are dead and that there are no bodies to retrieve. I will say that the renegades took the bodies with them to prevent anyone from the fort giving them a decent Christian burial. I will plead for safe asylum

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