The Long Trail (The McCabes Book 1) by Dennison Brad

Author:Dennison, Brad [Dennison, Brad]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Pine Bookshelf
Published: 2013-12-27T05:00:00+00:00

NINETEEN

Ginny’s room was not upstairs, but an addition to the first floor, off the parlor. She had always been a light sleeper, heard footsteps coming down the stairs shortly after the mantel clock chimed three times. She knew every sound in the house, and recognized the foot falls as belonging to John. It was not unusual for him to sleep but a few hours, then get up and pace about for a while. Smoke his pipe. Stand at the back porch, gazing off into the night. Zack Johnson had said once that Johnny’s light sleeping came from having been shot at once too often, but it had become worse after Lura was shot.

She heard the tapping of John’s riding boot heels on the pine wood floorboards as he crossed the parlor. She thought she heard a creak of leather, and figured he was probably wearing his guns. He did not even go to the outhouse without those things buckled about his hips. Again, from having been shot at once too often.

She heard the squeak of one hinge as he opened the front door and stepped out onto the porch. She remembered when the door first developed its squeak, and she had been about to ask one of the men to fetch a can of oil, but John dissuaded her. A squeaky door hinge tells you when the door is being opened, he said. Ginny wasn’t known for her patience, and little things like a squeaky door hinge can drive her to distraction, but she had to admit he had a point so she let it go. The door had now been squeaking for more than seven years.

She also had no doubt John now knew Dusty was sleeping in the guest room. To get to the stairs, John would have had to pass the doorway to the guest room. Oh, well. Now Ginny didn’t have to worry about how she would bring it to John’s attention at breakfast in the morning.

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