The Prettiest Girl in the Land (The Traherns #3) by Radke Nancy

Author:Radke, Nancy [Radke, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Bedrock Distribution LLC
Published: 2013-02-13T22:00:00+00:00

6

“Lila, my other clothes. Where...?”

“Here, Ma’am. Ruth. I couldn’t stand them. Your coins are all there, except two.” She opened a small door into a closet. My skirt and blouse hung there, clean, and my underskirt was folded.

I put on my undergarment, then the dress she had ironed. It was light after the heavy traveling outfit.

“Your coins show, Ma’am. Ruth. This won’t hide them.”

“What do people do?”

“Gents wear a money belt. Women carry a purse and aren’t expected to have much. You could put it in the bank, but that money won’t go far, here. Things cost. Most things come by ship or overland.”

“Thank you. I used one to pay my landlady in Memphis. The other is still in my purse, in case I needed it on the journey.”

“Take a couple in your purse and have Mrs. Jones put the rest in her safe.”

She helped me take the coins out. I had ten in all, what seemed a lot to me in the mountains. Lila took me to Mrs. Jones’ area of the house and that woman put them away for me and gave me a paper saying how much I had.

“Thank you,” I said.

“Thank you for saving my son’s life. You and Gage and Travers. We knew it could be a dangerous job, but the pay is better than most. He wanted to earn enough to start a small dairy farm.”

“How is he doing?”

“Excellent. He sent word with the pony express riders, which is how I knew before you got here. What are you and your man planning to do?”

“I’ve got a job with Mr. Debras doing freight.” I felt I should explain once more, so said, “I don’t know what Gage will be doing. We really aren’t together. I’ve just known him all my life.”

“He talked like you were someone important to him.”

“I don’t know about that.”

“You’ll need more than one dress, so I’ll have Lila take you to where she buys hers. It’s good fabric, and reasonable.”

“Thank you, Ma’am.”

“And you need to look at the newspaper.”

She walked over to a small table, picked up a paper and carried it back to me. It had an account of our trip, written by the reporter. He’d sent one back east and sold one to this paper too. And probably others.

“Travers is famous,” she said. “And so are you.”

I read the story the reporter had written and recognized a few things that had happened. But he had used up a whole lot of his freedom of speech. Travers was this wonder dog, and Gage and I had emerged as heroic figures who were more than human.

“Land sakes,” I said. “That man could turn a sow bug into a sow.”

“I expect he did exaggerate.”

“I have a hard time recognizing us. Dare I go outside?”

“You go with Lila and get yourself another dress and some other things. I received a message from the bankers that they want to meet you and Gage tomorrow. So you’ll want something nice for that meeting.”

“Walking out of the mountains, I didn’t carry much extra.

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