Growing Tall In Colorado by Hannah Blue Heron

Author:Hannah Blue Heron [Heron, Hannah Blue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781412239455
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2012-07-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

I never heard Mama and Daddy fighting, but suddenly we were moving again! It was a duplex on Lowell Boulevard and had even less room for a garden or the swing. Once again, Dida and I had to share a bedroom, and neither of us was too happy about it. At least it was just inside the boundaries of the school district which included Columbian. I could pick up Jeannie on Cap’n Henry on the way.

Daddy had to work on Thanksgiving that year, and since he was on the run from Pueblo to La Junta, he wouldn’t be near enough home to spend even a few hours with us. He and Mama decided that she and us girls would go to Pueblo and have our Thanksgiving dinner at a fancy restaurant there. Daddy made the reservations.

That very afternoon the North High School Vikings were scheduled to meet their main rivals the South High School Rebels. Dida was devastated to think she wouldn’t be there as a part of the Pep Club, to cheer the team on. The game began at noon, so Mama told her to meet the two of us at the train depot to catch the four o’clock train, without going home first. This would enable us to get to Pueblo by the 7:00 p.m. reservation.

Mama and I were at the depot by three thirty. No Dida. When they made the first call to board the train, she still wasn’t in sight. Finally the train pulled out of the depot without us. Mama was frantic, hardly knowing whether to be angry or concerned that something had happened to Dida. The game was supposed to have been over by three, which would have given her plenty of time to get to the depot, unless … Mama was heading for the pay phones to call the police, when I spied Dida running through the main doors of the depot.

“Here she is, Mama!” I cried out. “She’s just coming through the doors.”

“Go meet her and bring her here!” Mama said. I could tell by her voice she was not very happy.

I ran up to Dida and said, “We missed the train, and Mama is really mad at you!”

“Well, I got here as fast as I could,” Dida answered, and as soon as she was in earshot of Mama, she cried out, “Oh, Mama, Shusty says we missed the train! I wasn’t able to get a place on a street car until two of them went on ahead. Oh, Mama, what’s Daddy going to do?” Then she began to sob.

I was thoroughly embarrassed at such a display of emotion in a public place, so I took her purple and gold pom pom and began to study it assiduously, but I also wondered what Daddy would do. I knew he wasn’t going to be happy.

Mama telegraphed Daddy, saying we would be on the next train, which arrived in Pueblo at ten that night. Daddy wired back that he would try to get their reservation changed.

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