Who By Fire (2014)
“The destination was Dry Fork. John Darby had invited Tom to meet their lawyer. It was five years since his first trip to meet the Darbys, and he had gone down about once a year since then.
Billy was twelve, and there was not much conversation in the cab. Tom assumed the boy would rather have spent the day in town with his friends. A swimming pool had just opened, a present from the oil companies in the region. Or maybe Billy would have gone somewhere with Donna, who had been his pal since Jeann...ie left for B.C. The only reason Tom had asked his son along was that Ella had urged him to.
After miles of farms, they crossed a long ridge that had never known a plough. Tom nudged Billy, pointed at two mule deer in the scrub higher up.
It was a summer like any other except that their family was smaller. Jeannie had phoned to say she wouldn’t be returning to the farm this summer. She had been teaching for a couple of years and had a new beau. She planned to live in the West Kootenay town where he and his parents lived.MoreLess
Billy was twelve, and there was not much conversation in the cab. Tom assumed the boy would rather have spent the day in town with his friends. A swimming pool had just opened, a present from the oil companies in the region. Or maybe Billy would have gone somewhere with Donna, who had been his pal since Jeann...ie left for B.C. The only reason Tom had asked his son along was that Ella had urged him to.
After miles of farms, they crossed a long ridge that had never known a plough. Tom nudged Billy, pointed at two mule deer in the scrub higher up.
It was a summer like any other except that their family was smaller. Jeannie had phoned to say she wouldn’t be returning to the farm this summer. She had been teaching for a couple of years and had a new beau. She planned to live in the West Kootenay town where he and his parents lived.MoreLess
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