Mountain Homecoming by Sandra Robbins

Author:Sandra Robbins
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780736948876
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc.

When they pulled off the road and onto the trail leading to the Campbell cabin, Matthew’s hands tightened on the reins. It had been twenty years since he’d come down this path, but he remembered it as if it were yesterday.

He still recalled how his shoes and pants were wet from running through the dew that sparkled on the grass that morning, but he didn’t mind. He only had one thought in his head. Find his father, who had left home three days ago to go hunting for some game to feed the family. Now with all the food gone and his mother nearly exhausted from tending his sick brother, Matthew had slipped away to come to the home of Ben and Virgie Campbell, Wade’s parents.

They had been cordial, but they didn’t know if his father was off with Wade or not. Mrs. Campbell had even offered him a biscuit and a cup of milk, but he had refused. He didn’t have time to eat when his mother and Eli were hungry. He had run most of the way home and had arrived just as the sheriff rode his horse into their yard.

Matthew heard his mother’s scream at the sight of his father’s body draped over the back of another horse the sheriff led, but he couldn’t move. He stood still and stared at the man who had caused their family so much pain. His mother wouldn’t receive any more beatings from his father, and relief had coursed through Matthew’s body. But then he’d looked at his mother, and he’d regretted his thoughts.

In a few minutes time, her appearance had changed. Grief had carved hollowed-out lines in her face, and she looked like an old woman. Her wail split the air, and she fell to her knees, her hands lifted toward heaven as she cried out her agony to God. He’d never been able to rid himself of that picture. It had been seared in his mind. Every time he thought of his mother, he remembered how she’d looked the day the sheriff brought his father’s body home.

Then resilience born of the hard life she’d endured took control. She pushed to her feet and pulled her apron up to wipe away her tears. Taking a deep breath, she straightened her shoulders, and her features melted into the impassive look she would bear until her death five years later. She turned to him, and in that mountain twang he loved she said, “Son, I reckon you better be a-goin’ for Miss Anna and Granny.”

And that journey had now brought him to the one he was making today. Back to the place he’d come twenty years ago looking for his missing father, because today another young boy had come in search of help for his mother.

Matthew pulled the horse to a stop at the front of the cabin and climbed down. Anna and Rani were out of the buggy and rushing through the front door before he could walk around to help them down.

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