The Delivery by Branch James Edwin

Author:Branch, James Edwin [Branch, James Edwin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: VGR
Published: 2010-12-17T04:30:00+00:00

Chapter 9

There’s Trouble Everywhere

Uriah was unaware of what was happening behind them, and he was fixated on one thing, getting Miss Millicent to safety. In changing direction and going southeast towards Richmond, he’d missed the northbound cavalry patrol and had no idea of what happened to the train. As far as he knew, there wasn’t a soul looking for them and they were on their own.

During his Army days, he’d traveled this area and he knew that it was sparsely populated. The mountains and the thick woods coupled with heavy snowfalls during the winter months made the area beautiful, but hard to settle.

He felt they’d do better by making the direction change and riding towards Richmond. It was a large populated community not that far to the southeast, and he was certain when they reached it that they could find help for the other passengers. From there, he also thought he could get Miss Millicent on her way to her destination.

Since the woman had saved his life, he felt close to her and intended to make sure nothing happened to her. In just the short time he’d been traveling with her, he found her intriguing. He also knew that she was naive to the wilderness around them. She had a strong spirit, but she was definitely a city woman.

She didn’t appear to have many people skills, so he was concerned about what to do with her. Although she wasn’t his responsibility, he knew she was in uncharted territory in both the countryside they were in and with the type of people they’d already encountered. He felt that she’d led a sheltered life in the city.

Because she was a woman, Uriah was concerned that outside the structure of her train trip, she was like a duck out of water. On her own, she’d never last.

Once he got her to Richmond, he might be able to get her on her way. Being she was a woman, he figured he’d slow down their pace and make the trip as easy on her as possible.

This desire to make things easier for her continually played right into the hands of the McGinty’s.

After the patrol passed, they got back on their trail and were quickly closing the gap between them.

By late afternoon, Harvey actually caught sight of them off in the distance from a hilltop.

“There they are right there,” Harvey exclaimed.

He had a good enough eye, and he could tell they were only hours behind them. The brothers picked up the pace and moved quickly down the trail in pursuit.

Uriah, confident that there was no way they could be this close, wasn’t watching the trail behind him and had no idea the McGinty’s had almost caught them.

Near nightfall, Uriah spied an old burned out spread up ahead, and he and Miss Millicent rode into the place to find that only an old barn was still standing.

The main house might have been burned during the war or even recently. It was hard to tell because the brush had grown up all around the burned structure.

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