A Dream to Follow
““How should I know?” He studied the look on Manda’s face. Manda rarely showed much emotion unless someone had made her mad, which happened more often than not. “Baptiste?”“He wasn’t gone anywhere.” Disgust was another of her visibl emotions, and right now it dug under his skin.“Why can’t you just tell me?” He felt like someone had clappe him upside his head. “Your pa?”“Well, Zeb.” He was her pa, but by adoption. Her real father had disappeared back in South Dakota on a trip to the store for supplies years earlier. Some said he had run off, but Manda pounded whoever said that right into the dirt. No matter what had happened, no one had ever seen a trace of him. Zebulun had found Manda and her sister starving in a dugout near the swollen Missouri River and convinced them he would help them if they came with him. Eventually they had all ended up in Blessing.“When did he get here?”“Last night.”Thorliff waited for her to continue. When she didn’t, he sucked in a deep breath.
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