On Bear Mountain by Smith Deborah
Author:Smith, Deborah [Smith, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780982175668
Publisher: Bell Bridge Books
Published: 2010-08-08T18:30:00+00:00
12
“In town the Tibers are saying the Bear’s worth a lot of money,” Liza whispered as soon as I got back to the farm. “You can’t sell it, Ursula. You’ll kill your brother’s soul.”
“I know,” I answered wearily.
When Quentin came by later that afternoon he found a crowd of two-dozen neighbors and all five of my tenants waiting enthusiastically to thank him for being a hero on Mr. Beaumont’s behalf. Of course the neighbors’ main purpose was to learn all about this interesting man who’d come from Somewhere Else. He was a new local legend in the making. “I want to say I was here at the beginning,” one man told me.
Quentin immediately directed me into my own kitchen and shut the door. “I have nothing to say to these people. I don’t want anyone’s gratitude.” To himself he thought, I just want to buy the goddamned sculpture and get out of here before it gets more complicated. We were awkward with each other after the jail scene. It had been very intimate and emotional in unspoken ways we both recognized. He was suddenly embued with a deep brooding that went beyond his ordinary restlessness.
“It’s too late to save your privacy,” I said grimly. “Word’s gotten around about your mission and the value of the Bear. One of my tenants already told me she heard.”
“They’ve heard the price?” Quentin asked.
“No. Just that it’s very valuable. Before long somebody’s going to tell Arthur why you’re really here. You have to make nice with this crowd and keep them away from him until I can decide what to do. They want you to answer questions about your father’s career. That’s all.”
“I’m not here to be a tour guide. My father’s career ended twenty-two years ago. Thanks to my mother’s back-breaking work, he wasn’t forgotten, and also thanks to her, publicity finally overtook common sense. People decided to pay a lot for his work. That’s all there is to it. You and I need to talk to Arthur. Tell him the truth, and work with him on the idea of giving up the Bear. I believe I can persuade him to let me have the sculpture. And then you won’t have any money worries. Everything you love here—and you do love it, I can see that—will be safe.”
I wanted to shout, Don’t you understand? I can’t sell the damned sculpture, but he never seemed to hear that. “I’ll talk to him with I feel the time is right. Not now. You don’t realize what’s going on, out there in the yard. These people brought pictures of themselves beside the sculpture. Pictures to show you. At first the Bear was just a joke to them—‘Oh, that crazy Tom Powell’s put that ugly thing in his pasture!’ But somewhere over the years it became a part of their lives. There have been marriage proposals beside the Bear, and weddings, and christenings. People bring their houseguests– their ‘good company’ they call it—out here to see the Iron Bear.
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