Valley of Dreams by Lauraine Snelling

Author:Lauraine Snelling [Snelling, Lauraine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adult, Historical, Inspirational, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780764204159
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

15

Cassie stared at the deed on the table.

After reading it yet again, she placed all the other papers she’d decided to save back into the drawer. She would sort them all again in the daylight.

Jason had said the wagon was hers. It had belonged to her father personally and was not the property of the show. And Wind Dancer was hers, a gift from her father. But did he know about the deed in the drawer? She doubted it, or surely he would have said something. He always just referred to the valley as her father’s dream. Had there possibly been a slightly derogatory tone at times? She thought back. Strange how all these things were coming to her mind now.

She glanced around at all the cupboards and drawers. Where to keep it. She needed a safe place. Opening her trunk, she dug out her mother’s Bible, slid the envelope in between the pages, and put it all back in place. What had her mother known about the valley? Had she ever heard them discussing it? She thought back. Her mother referred to it as his dream valley. That’s what it was. After looking at the date on the deed, she’d realized he had paid for the land before he went into the Wild West show business. What had happened to that land in all these years since? Did someone else build a ranch on it? He’d always said the soil was so rich that the grass would be belly deep on the cattle.

Taking the paper out of her mother’s Bible, she read it again. Yes, the deed had been recorded at the county seat in Rapid City, although the seal was difficult to read. She studied her father’s signature. What had he been thinking then? Did he know he was going to start a traveling show, a Wild West Show, as it came to be called. Had he dreamed they would one day form a trio called the Dashing Lockwoods? Had he met Jason Talbot yet? Oh, so many questions she wanted to ask. She hoped Chief would have some of the answers. If she could get him talking.

A knock on the door brought her attention back to the present. “Yes?”

“You want Runs Like a Deer to sleep in here tonight?” Chief asked.

“Of course. Micah might have to help her back in.”

“He’s on first watch. She could sleep out here.”

“No.” Cassie removed some papers from the bunk and opened the door. “Your bed is ready for you.” She stepped down and stood aside to let the Indian woman approach. “Here, use me as a brace.” With Chief on one side and Cassie on the other, they helped the woman up the steps so she could sit on the bed. Cassie heaved a breath of relief. “Did that hurt, jarring your leg like that?”

“Some.” Runs Like a Deer lifted her splinted leg up onto the bed. But when she struggled to pull up the quilt, Cassie stepped in to help.

“You

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