Lemon Tart Mystery by Naomi Miller

Author:Naomi Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Amish, Cozy Mystery, series, Christian fiction, Mystery, Bakery, Intrigue, Small Town, Sweet Shop, Mennonite
Publisher: S&G Publishing
Published: 2017-07-25T04:00:00+00:00

— EIGHT —

Katie looked around for Freida when she walked into the crowded barn. She did not see her freind, but she did see a lot of young people she had never met before at the singing tonight.

She had a moment to think how glad she was that she had made a double batch of cookies to bring tonight since there was quite a crowd around her. Thanks at least in part to the generous space in the Yoder's barn, for sure and for certain.

After dropping off her cookies on one of the tables piled high with snacks and deserts, she wandered over to where one of the Yoder buwes stood stirring an enormous pitcher of lemonade.

“Hullo Katie Chupp. How are you this fine evening?” Levi Yoder stood beside his bruder, handing out plastic cups of lemonade.

“I am wunderbaar gut Levi... and you?”

“I'm great. Excited to be here.”

She turned to his younger bruder then. “And young Samuel—how are you this evening?”

There was an excitement in his eyes that she recognized from her own initial singings. She had plagued her own bruder with questions for months before their parents had finally decided she was old enough to go and see for herself.

“I am gut, Katie.” He leaned closer when she stepped toward him to make room for others who stepped up behind them for lemonade. “This is mei first singing.”

His wide eyes had told her that, but she returned his whisper, as if the two of them shared some delicious secret.

“Exciting, isn't it?”

“Jah, it most certainly is that.”

As more young people crowded around the table, Katie moved away. “Have fun tonight, young Samuel.”

“I'll see you later then, Katie?”

“Jah, I will be around.” And with that, she stepped away from the table, taking the first sip of her lemonade.

It took no more than that sip for her to know that Mary Zook had made it. Her lemonade had been well-known as the best in the district for as long as Katie could remember.

Katie made her way around the edges of the barn, watching for Freida, nodding her head across the crowded room to a few other freinden—and smiling as she caught small snatches of conversations.

Quite a few of the young people were talking about the ruckus that happened this afternoon at Mr. O'Neal's cafe. Several people stopped her as she went by them to ask if she knew more about the situation, to which she replied honestly that she knew even less than the others.

Anna Miller was one of the freinden who stopped Katie to ask about it. When she discovered Katie did not know about the latest news, she pulled Katie aside.

“Katie, kumme outside with me for a moment?”

Katie followed, smiling to herself. That was one of the things she liked most about Anna. Even though she lived just on the edge of town—and caught sight of the goings on that no one else knew about, she was not a gossip.

Anna waited until they had moved through the side door of the barn before she turned to face Katie.

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