“Apparently Chief Seattle had followed through on his promise to prohibit his tribesmen from entering the white women’s home. After thanking them in their language, Noah opened the half door and entered. While he and the others worked the women had talked nonstop, their female chatter drifting outside. Unaccountably, the sound had lifted Noah’s spirits. It had been several days since he’d heard Evie’s voice in anything but a sharp tone. Correction. Evangeline. I haven’t been granted permission t...o become that familiar. The thought frustrated him, but as he entered her delighted laughter filled the cabin, and the sound settled lightly in his ears. Not once during the journey on the Commodore had he heard that happy tone from her. “What’s so funny?” he asked. She turned with a start and the laughter evaporated, her lips tightening into the arrangement he had come to recognize as her annoyance with him. Louisa’s answer floated on a giggle. “Evie was telling us about the first time she heard of Elliott Bay and the Oregon Territory, when you wrote to your uncle asking him to bring a wagonload of women here.”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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