Rr05 - Tender Mercies
“Hjelmer pulled up his suspenders as he thundered down the stairs.“I don’t know. I can’t see any flames, but I know something is burning.” Penny was pulling on her boots as she explained. “I can just smell it.”Hjelmer paused at the doorway to sniff the air. “That’s grain burning. You go ring the bell!” He sprinted across the field toward the sack house.Penny ran to the front of the blacksmith and barn where they kept the fire bell. Pulling on the rope for all she was worth, she kept muttering, “Please, God. Please, God. Please, God.” That’s all she could think. “Help them hear it.”When she began hearing rifles discharging to pass the word along, she knew the alarm was out. She charged back in the store and gathered up the stacks of metal pails that had arrived only the day or so before. Out to the well, she began winding up the bucket.“Where is it?” Pastor Solberg puffed up beside her.“In the sack house, I think.”Riders on two horses galloped into the yard and tied the horses behind th...e shed.“In the sack house.”They grabbed full buckets and headed for the grain unloading dock.MoreLess
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