Undaunted Spirit by Jane Peart

Author:Jane Peart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Array
Publisher: Zondervan

Chapter 16

As if to match her downcast mood, the weather turned gray. October’s beautiful blue skies became heavy with clouds, and it rained steadily.

In the wake of Wade’s sudden, unexplained departure, Mindy struggled to deal with her heartache by throwing herself into her work. She should never have let it happen. For a few short weeks, she had let herself be diverted from her goals of becoming a topnotch newspaper journalist. She despised her own weakness for falling in love so easily and so hard with a man she hardly knew.

In spite of her decision to forget him, she kept thinking over the events of their time together, wondering if it was something she had said or done that had made him wary. In spite of his obvious attraction to her, Wade had never once said the words she longed to hear: “I love you.” Was the romance all in her imagination?

Mindy was sure Byron had observed her preoccupation with Wade. He often took his meals at the Palace and had seen the two of them eating dinner together, sometimes breakfast. He couldn’t miss Wade showing up at the news paper office, and then notice that Mindy would hurriedly clear her desk and leave with him. He’d made no comment, but Mindy was aware of the calculating glances he had given her when he caught her daydreaming over her work.

Mindy determined to stop thinking about Wade. She would concentrate on carving a niche for herself at the Gazette, make a name for herself in journalism. She searched for an idea for an article of local interest told from a woman’s viewpoint.

In a conversation with Mrs. Busby, the seed for one was planted. Quickly, Mindy outlined the idea to Byron. He leaned back in his swivel chair; a smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. “So you’re back to being a real newspaper woman, are you?”

Mindy blushed but lifted her chin defensively. “I’m always that, always looking for a good story, wherever it is, whoever may have it.”

“Uh-huh.” Byron’s eyes were amused, “So what is it this time, McClaren?”

“Mrs. Busby told me there’s a really old lady, Bedelia Warren, who as a child came west with her family on a wagon train. They got caught by weather before the Rockies and decided to camp near there instead of going on, to wait until spring to cross the mountains. Well, it seems they were ambushed by Apaches and the little girl was kidnapped.” She paused. “She was held hostage but eventually escaped and made her way back. A hazardous adventure. That’s the story I’d like to write. Mrs. Busby says only a few people know about it. It would make a great feature for the paper. I also think it might sell to one of the eastern periodicals. They are always interested in anything western. And a first-person account of such a dramatic event . . . well, it would be—”

“You would write it, of course, not just take down her words?”

“Yes, I would.

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