Mail Order Bride--Janine's Destiny by Karla Gracey

Author:Karla Gracey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: clean mail order brides, Mail Order Bride Western Frontier Clean, mail order brides mystery suspense, mail order brides western romance, montana mail order brides series
Publisher: KG Publishing House
Published: 2017-06-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Miss Chivers was very quiet, and seemed more than a little overawed by her experience. Samuel was not surprised. Such events would be traumatic for anyone. She was pale and obviously shaken. She leant more heavily on his arm than would be usual, but he was glad to assist her. She looked a little dazed when he left her to rest at Mrs Jenkins’ boarding house. The kindly landlady had taken Miss Chivers under her wing immediately, ushering her charge up to bed with a tray of hot, sweet tea and a variety of sweet tidbits to tempt her.

Samuel walked along Main Street, heading back towards Mayor Williams’ office. As he strode past the sheriff’s office, John Kimball stepped outside. “Mr Cleverley, I am so glad I have caught you. How is Miss Chivers?”

“Mrs Jenkins is mothering her. I think she will probably sleep for much of the rest of the day,” Samuel said.

“Poor girl. Sheriff Watson assured me that he will let me know what happens when the men are brought before the Justice. I shall let you know. You can decide whether it is information she needs to know. But, that isn’t why I needed to see you.”

“It isn’t?” Samuel said, surprised.

“No. After our conversation, about your wife,” he said, awkwardly. “Well, I have some information. I thought you might like to see it.”

“You have been looking into it? I thought you wouldn’t have the time. After all, it was so many months ago, and you are so very busy,” Samuel said, tension knotting his belly. He wanted to know what had happened, but a part of him desperately wanted to cling to the idea that she had died of a sudden illness.

“Come inside, I shall show you,” John said.

The two men entered the office. John directed Samuel towards a small room at the very rear of the building. The room was filled by a large desk, covered in papers, a broken sheriff’s star and John’s gun holster. “I have been discrete, but I found this,” the sheriff said, pushing a sheet of paper towards Samuel.

Samuel read it slowly, carefully. It was a report from the doctor who had declared Miriam dead. Dr Baron had noted a number of things in this report that he had not mentioned to Samuel. Miriam’s illness had progressed so rapidly. She had suddenly started vomiting, and had suffered the most excruciating pain in her belly. She had apparently spoken to the doctor about a darkening of her urine, and loose stools. As Samuel read each symptom, he could remember it all so vividly. He felt his anger, and sadness, at Miriam’s loss welling up inside him. She had been so thirsty all the time, and had gotten dizzy if she tried to stand, and had seemed to lose her mind, seeing things that weren’t there. According to the report, Dr Baron had not realized that Miriam had been poisoned with arsenic, until he found that her tongue was black.

“She was poisoned?” Samuel said, incredulous that such a thing had been kept from him.

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