Walking in Two Worlds by Terry O'Reilly

Author:Terry O'Reilly [O'Reilly, Terry]
Language: nld
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Lee heard voices from inside the house as he put up Ranger in the livery. At first he thought they were just having fun, but as he approached the door and the voices became more distinct, it became clear to him something was wrong.

Sleeps With Dog was bellowing like a bull elk in rut and he could hear Tatanka and Nate trying to calm him down.

"No, I will no go to school with that lady!" Lee heard the boy yell as he walked in the back door to the warmth of the kitchen. Sleeps With Dog turned to see him come in and ran to his side. "Lee Masters you help me. Lady come tell me I 93

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must go to school. I not want that. I stay here learn from Ate and Nate. You tell them."

If it hadn't been for the apparent seriousness of the situation before him, Lee would have been pleased to hear Sleeps With Dog refer to Tatanka as 'Ate,' Father.

"What's goin' on?" Lee asked, looking from the boy to Tatanka and Nate.

"Woman come to livery in morning," Tatanka began. "She say she from church."

"Mrs. Wallace, Priscilla Wallace," clarified Nate.

"Hau, Missy Wallace," Tatanka continued.

"She have face like prune," chimed in Sleeps With Dog.

"And nose like beak of hawk!"

"Here, now," corrected Lee, "None of that ... show respect." But a feeling of apprehension flooded him. "What'd she want?"

"She say she hear that orfang live here."

"A what?" Lee furrowed his brow.

"Orphan," Nate said.

"Hau, yes, 'orphan,'" Tatanka corrected himself. "She tell us that she come to take Sleeps With Dog to safe place."

"What!" Lee's earlier feelings of apprehension were realized.

"Easy there," Nate said in a calm voice. "We set'er straight. We told her Tanka was the boy's daddy, that he weren't no orphan. She kind o' thinks Tanka here is his natural dad."

"She still want to take me to church school!" Sleeps With Dog moaned.

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Lee looked at him with compassion. He remembered how he hated school as a boy and how he had spent more energy getting out of going than he would if he had just gone.

"Why does he have ta go ta school?" asked Lee.

"He don't," continued Nate, "but Mrs. Wallace can be a trouble maker and I figured better to butter her up than pour salt in a wound. 'Sides, she didn't make no big deal outta his bein' an Injun. That's a real surprise ta me. Maybe she's gettin' soft in her old age."

Lee considered this. He turned to Tatanka. "You feelin' all right with this?"

"No, but feel Nate know best. He feel it be less trouble for us to let boy go to school with lady."

"Less trouble for you but more trouble for me!" Sleeps With Dog moaned again and scooped up Small Puppy and slumped in a chair.

Nate explained. Mrs. Wallace, it seemed, was the self appointed guardian of education and Christian morality for the few children of Bethel. She was the wife of the parson of the church and had declared herself school marm.

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