All Together in One Place by Jane Kirkpatrick

Author:Jane Kirkpatrick [Kirkpatrick, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-55341-6
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2000-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Away from the activities of the women, Ruth brushed Koda. Hand over hand, she brushed, the rhythm familiar and comforting. Here at least with the smell of hay, manure, and cooling horse, her life made sense.

Everything else did not Matt Schmidtke was young and inexperienced even with Joe Pepin riding beside him. They were honest enough, but Charles was a question. It'd be like him to lay back, join up with them. He didn't seem the kind to want to be too far from places where he could take advantage. She wished she'd gone with them. Why hadn't she pushed Betha harder to go forward? You couldn't ever put the past behind if you kept turning back to it. Ruth knew about that; her life was written in afflicted ink.

She hadn't thought that six years ago. She was happier than she believed possible then, happier than she deserved. She brushed Koda, remembering how the horses had nurtured her then, too. She should have known it wouldn't last. Happiness flitted into her life like a hummingbird, startling and bright and tasting of succulence just before it flew away. Her two-year engagement to a young banker originally from Indiana was about to end—joyously, with the wedding of the summer.

They'd met while Ruth worked as a lithographer at the Columbus paper, taking the drawings the men brought in of fires and celebrations and such, and engraving them backwards onto the limestone plates with detail so precise her skills were often asked for, so the designs could be printed perfectly against the paper. It was a gift not many had, and she took pride in the accomplishment, though in the West she'd never use it. It would make her too easy for Zane to find, even with her last name now changed. And he must never find her.

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