by Tere
But Travis did not occur by won. It covered círculo of three hundred kilometers around the plantation and formuló questions a all those that lived within the circle.
Margo contained the breath and requested to have done his well work. It had his compensates when Travis returned a month later, tired, thin and aged. With a smile, Margo remembered all the money that him that deceit was costado. With the plantation already indebted, it could not be allowed many errors, so that it had taken all the bribed cash that it had and to men and women of
all the region. Some said to Travis that was it visto, but indicated erroneous ways to him. Oíros that habían sight they denied. And some few insobornables dijeron the truth, but more ahead there were others swore it not to have seen.
Little by little, Travis returned to the work of the plantación, rolling more and more to authority to its brother Wes-law. And Margo was arranged to repair the life of Travis.
The first section of the trip was almost pleasant stops Regan. It did not let imagine the face of Travis when it found it. Clear that it would negotiate with him before returning to its home. It would insist on which it dismissed a the cook and contracted a master of keys. ¡No! Same Regan would choose the master of keys, somebody that was to him loyal.
The man of the cart left it in an inn of diligencias. There, Regan was armed of anger and entered pequeña put, that, more than public establishment, parecía the house of somebody.
-- Era our house -- the owner --, but después explained to him of which my husband died, I sold earth and I began to accept guests. It was much more easy that to cook for
my ten children.
The owner of the inn took to Regan under her wing and him she gave a friendly sermon about traveling single. While it ate single in a table, Regan imagined to Travis asking information that woman.
In the morning, it asked the owner four times towards where it went the next diligence, and it included/understood with certain fault that did so that the woman recorded in her mind towards where she would go.
To the second day cu the diligence goes was very fatigada and it did not let watch after the window. The storm had happened; the air had been very loaded and the vestido one one adhered to him to the body, in una opportunity a horse heard acercar itself and smiled, safe that the rider would be Travis. It showed the head by the window and raised the hand to greet it, but the rider it followed of length. Avergonzada, returned to comply in its seat.
Esa night was no innkeeper friendly but only old bad-tempered that served a meat lasts and potatoes You would go for the supper. Sad and tired. Regan raised the dormitory that, in his condition of single woman, shared with other ten women.
Before the dawn it woke up and one lay down to cry in silence. At the time of starting off, it hurt the head to him and it had the swollen eyes. The other four passengers tried to talk with her, but Regan only he could agree to his questions. All asked to him the same: Where it directed.
Watching after the window without seeing in fact, comenzó to consider the same question. Perhaps it had fled from Travis only stops to demonstrate to him that it could be independiente? It really thought that it wanted a Margo?
Without finding answers to its questions, it followed tomando a diligence after another one, watching to pass the landscape, without bothering itself at least by the decent lack of food and beds.
Late, stunned, it was gotten off the diligence in inhospitable site that consisted of little but which some houses.
-- Here the route finishes, lady informed to him coachman, to the time that offered the hand to him.
-- How it said?
The man watched it with patience. In the last cuatro days it had seen it sunk in its thoughts, and pensó that perhaps no it was in its exact ones.
-- Here the route finishes. Beyond Scarlet Springs is India no earth more. If it wants to follow viaje, tended that to rent a cart.
-- Could obtain here a room?
-- Lady, this not even is a town, has hotels. Watch, or it remains or it returns. Here it does not have where to lodge.
¡To return! How it could return with Travis and his amante? From behind the diligence a woman voice was heard.
--Yo I have site. It can remain with me until decide what wishes to do.
Regan became and found to a young voluptuosa and of low stature, of hair color honey and great blue eyes.
-- I am Dutton Brandy, and I have a farm here cerca. It wants to remain with me?
-- Yes -- Regan --. responded I can pay to him...
--No worries for that reason. We will already fix ourselves.
It took the suitcase from Regan and one started up.
--La I saw there, and it seemed to me so small that it gave pain me. It knows, I I was just as you do about three months. My parents died and me they left single, immediately than this old farm and something more. Well, we have arrived.
It made happen to Regan to a house of two plants in very badly state.
-- Siéntese. I will prepare a little coffee. How it is called?
-- Regan Stanford -- it responded, without thinking it; soon it shrank of shoulders, because what mattered that one did not hide? It was obvious that a Travis did not interest to him that it returned.
Regan sucked the coffee. Although it did not please much to him flavor, helped it to feel better, although lágrimas began a to grow behind its eyes.
-- Parece that you also have had your tragedy -- Brandy observed while cut a pie piece and was given it to Regan.
A man whom he loved to marry with her in spite of despreciar it, an uncle who detested it, a man who had married with her only by boy who hoped... It could not but agree to the Brandy question.
When seeing that the girl as soon as she had proven the pie, Brandy watched it with compassion and it asked to him if
it wished to lie down. Once single in small dormitorio. Regan lay down to cry with desire, as before it had never done it.
It did not hear enter Brandy; it only felt that it embraced it. -- You can tell it to me if you wish it -- it whispered. —¡Men! -- Regan --. exclaims) Two times I have loved them, and twice...
--No makes taita that you say more -- Brandy --. said I am one expert in men. It makes two anuses I fell in love with one and I decided that it was worth more than any other person in the world. For that reason one night I fled by the window from my dormitorio, without leaving at least, a note to my parents, and me tugué with him. It said that we were going to marry, but never seemed to be the suitable moment. It does six months I found it in the bed with another woman.
That confession made cry more to Regan.
--No knew where to go -- Brandy --. continued Entonces I came to house, and my wonderful parents received, without never saying a word to me on which he had done. Two weeks later died of scarlet fever.
--Yo... I feel it -- Regan --. sobbed Then, you also you are single.
-- Exactly -- Brandy --. said I am owner of a farm that it is on the verge of collapsing on my person, and all the men who happen this way they swear that they could make me the woman happiest of the world.
—¡I hope that you do not create to them! -- Regan exclaimed. Brandy laughed.
-- Empiezas to speak like I, but or marry with some of them or I starve here.
--Yo I have a little money -- Regan said, and drained on the bed its pockets. It saw with consternation that only it had left four currencies of silver --. ¡Espera a minute! -- it added, while maleta ran towards his and it removed to the bracelet from sapphires and slopes of diamantes.
Brandy raised them towards the light.
-- One of your two men had of being very good with you.
-- When it was with me, yes -- Regan responded, with misfortune. Suddenly, its expression changed and the belly clung.
-- you feel bad?
-- Creo that the baby finishes moving -- she responded astonished.
The Brandy eyes dilated, an
d soon it threw to laugh.
—¡Pretty pair we are! Two rejected women who hate a all the masculine -- she said, in a tone that did not leave doubts that his opinion went to change --, with a pair of jewels, four currencies of silver, one farm that comes down and a baby in way. How we will make to take food to our east table winter?
The form in which it spoke of both and the hint of which that winter they would be together woke up a spark of interés in Regan. Travis she did not want it, but it had to sobrevivir. When feeling another movement of baby, smiled. In the last months it had not thought much about its son. Travis no it let it think more than about him.
-- What seems to you if we eat more pie and conversamos? -- Brandy suggested.
Regan did not imagine its future with much joy, but it had to plan something for her and his son.
-- You did this? -- it asked, while it ate the pie with voracity.
Brandy smiled with pride.
--Si is something I know to do, is to cook. To the ten years it already cooked everything for my parents.
--Al less you have some talent -- Regan said, in tone shady --. I do not know to do nothing.
Brandy seated to the old table.
--Yo enseñarte could cook. It was thinking about to prepare meals and to sell them to the people who happen through Scarlet Springs. Between two we could gain the sufficient thing to maintain to us.
-- This is Scarlet Springs? Thus is called east place?
Brandy watched it with compassion.
-- Supongo that simply you approached a diligencia and you arrived until the end of the route.
Regan only agreed while the piece finished of pie.
--Si you are arranged to try it and to work, me gustaría to have your company.
The hands were narrowed to seal the agreement. Brandy took one week in getting to really believe that Regan did not know to cook, but they spent ten days until one occurred by won.
he is useless -- it sighed Brandy --. If you do not forget leavening is the flour or I sweeten some other thing. -- Puso on table one hogaza of bread and I short while to nail a knife to him, but could not.
--Lo I feel -- Regan --. said I assure that it to you attempt.
Brandy watched it with critical eye and said: -- Sabes stops what you are very good? It likes people. You have certain air of dulzura and you are so pretty that the women take affection and want protegerte to you, and men also.
Once Travis had wanted to protect it, but it did not have lasted much.
--No I am sure that you are right, but what class of talent he is that one?
-- You can sell. I will cook and you will sell. Muéstrate candy by outside, but negotiates well. You do not leave nobody convinces to pay to you less than what we requested.
On the following day the diligence brought to four personas that they were going to be with others in Scarlet Springs to continue trip towards the west. By impulse, Regan elevated the price of the food and nobody questioned it. Vendieron all.
That late, it spent all the money that had she and Brandy. Three of the colonos that traveled towards the west had overloaded his carts, and were arranged to arrojar to the river the excess of load: lights, cords and some clothes. They were gotten upset and they wanted to make sure that nobody could use what they had paid. Regan offered to buy everything to them. It ran to the house, it took all the money and occurred it to the colonos.
When it returned with the merchandise, Brandy was put furious. They did not have money, they had left very few provisiones and had one full room of equipment that nobody needed.
During three days they were fed of apples that they robbed of an orchard that was to six kilometers of there. Regan felt very culprit.
To I emulate day, arrived more colonos at Scarlet Springs and Regan sold all articles to them by the triple of which she had paid. Crying of lightening because its situación had been solved. Regan and Brandy they embraced and they danced in the kitchen.
That was the beginning of everything. With that first venta they also gained mutual confidence in themselves and. They began to glide what they could do in futuro.
They made a deal with the farmer who had manzanar: they would buy all apples to him fallen to cambio of very little money and one hogaza of bread per week. By the nights, both pelaban and cut apples, and on the following day put them to dry to the sun. Once dry, they sold to the colonos that traveled to the west.
Each cent that won, each treatment that did, it increased the amount of his business. They rose before the dawn and they laid down very late. Nevertheless, sometimes Regan felt happier than ever. In its life it felt for the first time that somebody needed it.
During the autumn they began to accept guests and a to serve meals. People arrived at Scarlet demasiado Springs takes stops there to continue trip to the west and they spendt the night. A man explained to them that in his native town had offered him a goodbye celebration, and it did not want to return and to say that there were lost the carts.
Regan and Brandy were watched, smiled and said to man who they would be in charge. For November already they podían to receive six guests, and as soon as it was left site.
--El next year I will plant gherkins and coles -- it said Brandy, watching with disgust a food that consisted of little more than hunting meat.
It watched Regan and it let complain. The girl estaba of foot, vacillating, with the belly very enlarged.
--Si you excuse to me -- it said, in the voice lowest posible --, I believe that I will raise to have a baby.
Brandy, furious, took the arm from its friend and ayudó to raise the dormitory that shared.
-- Without a doubt, you have been pains all. Cuándo you are going to leave of considerarte a load and to request aid? With stupidity, Regan it seated in the bed and recostó in the pillows that Brandy placed.
-- You could preach to me later? -- it said, with the face contorsionada.
In spite of the small contexture of Regan, his it was a easy childbirth. It arrived at the world a great girl and perfecta. Frunció the carita, it closed the fists and it began to berrear.
-- Equal what Travis -- Regan murmured, and tended the arms in order to take its daughter --. Jennifer. You like that name?
-- Yes -- Brandy responded, while it cleaned up to Regan and to room.
She was too exhausted to think about nombre of the baby. It observed Regan, that rocked in arms its daughter and felt that there was taken the worse part.
A month later, both women were adaptado to new routine to direct |a house of guests and to atender to the baby. When it arrived the spring, also arrived hundreds from colonos. A man, whose wife had muerto in the trip to Scarlet Springs, decided to remain with its two children small in the pueblito and it began to construct a great and comfortable house.
-- This town will grow -- Regan murmured, with the girl in arms. It contemplated the old farm and it imagined it with a new coat of paint. It gave loose rein to its imaginación and also saw an extension in the front, something like one releases gallery.
-- Tienes a very strange expression -- Brandy --. observed You mean to what must to me?
Not yet. Regan thought. It had been too many sleepy
in its life, and all had failed. In ahead it would concentrate in a single objective, and would work much stops
to obtain it.
Weeks later, Regan decided to the aim to reveal a Brandy its ideas of remodelar and enlarging the house to convertir it in true hotel. Brandy was surprised much.
--Es... a wonderful idea -- it responded, vacillating --. But think that we... I mean, two women... we pruned to do something thus? What we know of hostelería?
-- Nothing -- Regan --. admitted seriously And you do not leave me to compare what I know to do with which I want to do, or never I will try it.
Brandy laughed, without knowing how how to take that declaration.
-- I am with you -- I gave jo to aim --. You it deci
des what there is to do and I will follow to you.
That was another thing about which Regan did not want to think.
In fact it wanted to stay occupied so that no it could think. Two days later it found an airplane for Jennifer, removed jewels of their hiding place and approached a diligence towards the north. It happened through three towns until encontrar to somebody ready to pay a decent price by bracelet and the slopes. And everywhere it visited posadas local. It discovered that an inn was not only a lodging for travellers but also a place of social and political reuniones. It drew up sketches and it did preguntas, and their seriousness and youth gained many hours of conversation and answers to him.
When it returned to house, tired but delighted and more that anxious to see its daughter and her friend, it had a great leather suitcase note flood, drawings and prescriptions for Brandy. Sewings to the clothes, brought turns banking by jewels. From that moment in ahead never it had doubts some of whom he was the leader in that society.
Farrell Batsford lowered of the diligence in flourishing town of Scarlet Springs, Pensilvania, in a fresh morning of March of 1802. The dust of camino was shaken, accommodated the velvet neck blue of his jacket and it threw of his fist of embroider.
-- It is here where lowers, Sir? the coachman asked to him from back.
Farrell was not bothered in watching the coachman; simplemente it agreed. Seconds later, it gave average return when hearing that its two great trunks they were thrown to the ground from the ceiling of the diligence. With an ample one smile, he cochero watched it with innocent air.
-- Quiere that one takes them to the inn? -- it asked fornido man.
Again Farrell agreed with coldness; ignoraba better than it could to all the American race. Cuando moved away the diligence, Farrell saw for the first time the Inn of the Silver-plated Dolphin. It had three plants and average, with double galleries to the front and discharges white columns that arrived at lofty ceiling. Farrell arrojó to young a currency and decided to give a stroll by the city.
Here there is money in some pair, thought to him when observing clean buildings) extensive. I-'rente to the inn was the press, medico doctor's office, a lawyer and one droguería. Near there was one there blacksmith shop, ample almacén, a school and, to the other end of the town, one well conserved high church and. Everything had a prosperous aspect.
