Wild Glory by Andrea Parnell

Author:Andrea Parnell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: suspense, gothic romance, salem witch trials, romance 1600s
Publisher: Trove Books

Chapter 9

Her duty half-done with the butter delivered to Rachel Leonard and a jar of medicine dropped off at the Allyn house, Glory guided the mare toward the Collier residence. She kept her fingers crossed that Sarah would be as eager to end their estrangement as she was. In her mind she had all she would say mapped out and waiting.

“We have been too close, Sarah, not to speak of what is between us. Surely you know that whatever I have done to slight you was not done with intent. You are the sister I never had by blood, Sarah. Let us mend this hurt. Let us be friends as we were before.”

Surely Sarah would not refuse her plea. She was too good-hearted not to hear out even an enemy. Besides, what could possibly be a great enough offense to permanently tear down the friendship they had held?

Anne Collier, looking as if she lacked for sleep, opened the door. “Glory,” she said warmly. “You have brought the medicine for Ruthie. I am glad of it. Your mother’s remedies are always good to break a fever. Come in, will you not. I’ll call Sarah while I take this up to Ruthie.”

“I have wanted to see her for some time,” Glory replied.

“No doubt she feels the same. She has told me you have been too busy to visit these past weeks.”

While Glory was left to ponder the twist of truth Sarah had told her mother, Anne climbed the stairs and called for her eldest daughter. She was late by some minutes. Having heard the clattering approach of a horse, Sarah had hurried to her window and seen the arrival of Glory Warren. Not anxious to explain to her mother why she did not want to see Glory, she had hurriedly tiptoed down the back stairs and by the time her mother called was shutting the garden gate behind her.

Anne was back in the time it took to administer to Ruthie a draught of the medicine. “Sarah is gone,” she offered with a look of dismay. “She must have set off to do an errand I had for her. Though ’tis unlike her to go without saying a word.”

Glory declined a mug of cider and took her leave. She knew why Sarah had left. So this was the way it was to be between them. For the life of her she could not fathom the cause, but it had all started that day she had defended William at the stocks.

The sun was beginning to slide from the sky as she rode away from the Collier house. Deep in thought, she did not notice Josiah Bellingham standing with a gathering of church elders on the meetinghouse grounds. Nor did she see Sarah in the doorway of a shop across the street; thus she did not know that as Bellingham’s eyes followed her departure the gap of enmity between two who had been friends grew ever wider.

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