A New Beginning
“How long would she need to work away from her child? She didn’t see an end to it. The only thing that would save her from employment would be marriage, and she couldn’t imagine that any man would want to take on a widow, her daughter, her mother, and the host of difficulties that would entail. It was best if she put that thought out of her mind and prepared to spend the next several years, at least, in service. It wasn’t at all what she’d imagined for her life, but it was what she had, so she’d... make the most of it.She mounted Cleophas in the yard and trotted down the road. As she came to a bend, she saw two men from town standing there, one smoking a pipe and the other whittling something with his knife. She raised her chin and urged Cleophas to move faster, but even her increased speed didn’t keep her from hearing their inappropriate words as she passed. She recognized them as the two men who had spoken to her outside the saloon the other day. With her cheeks flaming red, she rode up to the hotel, dismounted, and gasped when a young man with a thick shock of straw-colored hair reached out for the reins.“My name’s Tom White, ma’am, and I’m the new stablehand.MoreLess
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