The River Nymph
The River Nymph
“she began hesitantly, then bit her lip and continued, “well, maybe I didn’t but not for the reasons you think. I wasn’t afraid of losing the money. I don’t believe you’d run off with it—not…not any longer.”
“Then what?” he coaxed, utterly confused as he saw his own tumbling emotions mirrored in her eyes.
“Sky told me about your wife and child…what you did…” She felt his whole body stiffen with outrage. “Please, don’t be angry with her. I saw the way you began to change the farther upriv...er we traveled, your clothes, your hair…your…manner. Then the incident with the Tetons and the dynamite…that ghastly woodhawk’s camp…”
He almost wrenched his shoulders from their sockets as he came up off the mattress. “You followed and spied on me at Johnson’s lair! Well, I reckon it’s a good thing you did have the bluebellies shackle me. Who knows what a savage like the Liver Eater might do to you,”MoreLess
“Then what?” he coaxed, utterly confused as he saw his own tumbling emotions mirrored in her eyes.
“Sky told me about your wife and child…what you did…” She felt his whole body stiffen with outrage. “Please, don’t be angry with her. I saw the way you began to change the farther upriv...er we traveled, your clothes, your hair…your…manner. Then the incident with the Tetons and the dynamite…that ghastly woodhawk’s camp…”
He almost wrenched his shoulders from their sockets as he came up off the mattress. “You followed and spied on me at Johnson’s lair! Well, I reckon it’s a good thing you did have the bluebellies shackle me. Who knows what a savage like the Liver Eater might do to you,”MoreLess
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