by Tere
--Te you will feel better when you arrive at house. What you need is a new challenge.
-- and what will happen when it learns everything what there is to know on the handling of a plantation? it asked to him, becoming towards him.
-- That will never happen, because the plantation me it includes me, and you will never learn everything on me. Ahora well, where she is my daughter?
-- Generally, by this time it is with Brandy. Not me I fixed because I thought that you were with her. -- Penso' a momento and soon smiled.-- Where he is pony that him compraste? Where it is, there it will be Jennifer.
--Ya I watched in the stable, but it is not there, and Brandy no it has seen it in all the morning.
-- Not even for the breakfast? -- it asked, with the frown gathered --. ¡Travis! -- it exclaimed, alarmed.
-- Espera a minute --la tranquilized --. Not you alteres. Perhaps it went to the house of some amiguita.
-- But she always says to me where she goes... ¡always! lily the only way in which I can know where work is mientras.
-- It is well -- Travis --. said You búscala in the hotel and I I will look for it by the town. In a while the encontraremos,Now it sees! -- it added, laughing.
First which it was happened to him to Regan it was that perhaps the excitation of the previous day had caused him stomach ache and would have returned to lie down and forgotten to say to anybody where it would go. With sigilo, Regan dormitorio crossed his and opened the door of its daughter. It hoped to see slept it in the bed, so that it did not understand in the beginning desorden of the room. There were, drawers throughout opened clothes, the sheets were average taken of the bed and the shoes they were scattered by the ground and on bed.
—¡It has been making the luggage! -- it said aloud, alleviated.
When one knelt down to gather a shoe, it saw note on the pillow. They would not give back to Jennifer unless they placed fifty thousand dollars on the foot of the old well that was to the south of the town, in term of two days.
The distressed shout of Regan was heard in all the hotel. Brandy, with the hands and the apron covered with flour, was first in to arrive at the quarter of Jennifer. It supported an arm on trembly shoulders of Regan, took it to seat in the bed and took the note.
Brandy raised the Vista and watched the people who were in the door.
-- That somebody is going to look for Travis -- it ordered --. Díganle that it comes here immediately.
Regan was put of foot, but Brandy stopped it. -- Where you go?
-- Tengo to see how much money I have in the box fuerte -- it responded, stunned --. I know that it is not sufficient. Think that it can sell something in two days?
they ---Regan, siéntate and waits for Travis. It will know how to obtain the money. It is even probable that it has a little here.
.Without becoming aware of which it did. Regan returned a to seat, grasping the note of kidnappers and one of the shoes of Jennifer.
Moments later Travis it burst in into the room. When seeing it, Regan rose of a jump and ran towards him.
—¡Somebody has taken to my daughter! -- it exclaimed --. You have money? You can obtain fifty thousand dollars? Surely you can obtain that sum.
-- Espera, déjame to see the note -- Travis said, to tiempo that it embraced it with firmness. It read several times before raising the Vista to it.
-- Travis -- Regan --. said What we must do for to obtain the money?
-- This I do not like -- Travis by low it murmured, and it returned towards Brandy --. You spent all the morning in the kitchen?
Brandy agreed.
-- and you did not hear anything? Dresses some stranger in pasillo? -- it asked, indicating with the head towards the corredor that it gave to the kitchen and to office of Regan.
--A nobody. Nothing outside the common thing.
--Ve look for all the personnel and tráelos here the instante -- it ordered to Brandy.
---Travis, please, we must begin to reunite money.
Travis seated in the bed and attracted Regan between his knees.
-- Escúchame. Here something walks bad. There are only two ways to enter your apartment: happening through cocina or the back door. Brandy and the cooks always are in that corridor that goes of the kitchen to pantry, and nobody could have left with Jennifer without being seen. Entonces it is left the door back, that I know that you always have cenada with key. lock has not been forced, so that Jennifer had to open it from within.
—¡But it cannot be! She knows that she does not have to do that.
--A that I go. Only it would open it to that conociera and who trusted, somebody that outside friend of the house.
And now, the second point. Who knows that you can conseguir fifty mil dollars? Nobody in the town me conoce, and until I did not know yesterday that you had money. This means that somebody much more knows of you that residentes of Scaí let Springs.
—¡Farrell! -- Regan --. exclaimedIt knows better than I how much money I have. Then Brandy I returned) with the personnel; muds came in silence and with the expanded eyes, and after them arrived Farrell Batsford.
-- Regan -- --, said I finish finding out. There is something can to do?
Travis happened to its side and began to interrogate to the personal, to ask if they had seen something them that called the attention that morning to them, if they had seen Jennifer with somebody.
While they thought, without remembering nothing, Travis took hand of a servant.
-- What is this that you have in the fingers? From where it left?
The girl backed down, scared.
Red --Es. It left sheets of number twelve.
Travis became towards Regan, to the expectation.
--Es the room of Margo -- it said, with pesadumbre. Without another word, Travis left the apartment by the back door and it was directed to the stables, and Regan left after him. When he reached it, it was saddling a horse.
-- Where you go? it asked --. to him ¡Travis! ¡Tenemos that to obtain the money!
Travis stopped the sufficient time for acariciarle the cheek.
-- Margo has to Jennifer -- it said, while it continued saddling horse --. It knew that we would find tinta, and knows that I will go after her. That is what looks for in realidad. I do not believe that it makes damage to Jennifer.
—¡That you do not create it! Your ramera has taken to my daughter and...
Travis took a finger to the lips of Regan.
-- lily also my daughter, and if I must give Margo each hectare that I have, I will so do it with recovering to Jennifer. Now I want that you remain here, because I can order to me better of this single one -- she said, and mounted.
-- Pretendes that I have left here to hope? How you know where it is Margo?:
-- Always it goes to its house -- it responded --. It always goes where it can be near the memory of its damn father. It took the reins, applied a kick to the horse and disappeared in the middle of a dust cloud.
It was at daybreak, three days later, when Travis it stopped its horse in front of the house of Margo. It had needed several horses in order to travel at the speed that it demanded to them.
It disassembled of a jump and it entered the house giving portazo. It knew exactly where to find to Margo: in the library, sitting under the picture of its father.
-- you have taken a little more than what hoped it said to him Margo gladly when greeting it.
Its reddish hair, entangled, arrived to him at shoulders, and had a dark spot in the dressing gown.
-- Where it is?
-- It is well -- she responded Margo, laughing, a! time that it raised an empty whiskey glass --. It sees verla you yourself. Rare time I do damage to the children. Later they see drink something with me.
Travis raised the steps of two in two. In a momento of its life it had visited frequently the Jenkins house and it knew it very well. Now, while it looked for its daughter, it did not pay attention
to the sites of walls where before there were pictures nor to the tables that now lacked ornamentos.
It found to Jennifer sleepy in the bed that it had used in its childhood. She raised it and the girl was on the awares smiled, said "papi" and returned to fall asleep. Surely it had traveled with Margo all the night, and still tapeworm in the face and the clothes the dust of the way.
With care, it returned to leave it in the bed, it kissed it and it returned to the ground floor. It was drills to speak with Margo. It not even raised the Vista when Travis crossed the biblioteca and used to a glass ele oporto.
-- By qué'.' -- Margo --. murmured Why you did not marry with me? After every year that we happened together... We rode together, we swam naked, we made the love. I always thought, and my father also pensaba...
It interrupted the shout of Travis.
—¡For that reason same! ¡That damn father yours! In your life you loved only two people: to same you and Ezra Jen-kins.
Its glass in gesture of greeting stopped and raised to picture located on the home.
-- You never understood it, but your father was more miserable and stingy embustero than has existed. It robbed cents to enslaved children. Never me importó much what did, but every day saw that you you seemed more to him. You remember of when you began to receive the weavers by the broken shuttles?
Margo raised the Vista with desperation in the face.
--El was not thus. It was good and...
Travis snorted.
-- good Era with you and anybody more.
--Y I would have been good with you -- Margo insisted, suplicante.
—¡No! You would have hated to me not to swindle nor to rob to everything I flood. You would have seen that attitude like a debilidad of my part.
Margo had the Vista nailed in its drink
-- But why she? Why a rate of alcantarilla like that English pale and flacucha? Not even it knew to prepare a tea cup.
-- Sabes well what is not no rate of culvert, since you request fifty thousand dollars to him of rescue.
The eyes of Travis began to obnubilar themselves when remembering that night in England.
-- You must it have seen when I knew it, dirty, scared, dressed only in a torn nightgown. But it spoke like a lady of the best cradle. Each word, each syllable was so precise... Even though it cries, it speaks thus.
-- and you married with her by its damn presumido accent? -- Margo with fury said.
Travis smiled with distant air.
--Me I married with her by the form in which it watches to me. It does to me to feel the best man of the world. When it is with me, I can do any thing. And it has been to placer to see grow it. It has stopped being one chiquilla scared and has become a woman. --Su smile one became more ample.-- and she is all mine.
Margo threw to the other side of the room its glass emptiness, that crashed against the wall, behind Travis.
-- Perhaps you think that I am going to remain here, escuchando the desvarios that you say of another woman?
The face of Travis became hardened.
--No you must listen to me if you do not want. I will buscar to my daughter and I will take it to house.
To the foot of the stairs one became towards Margo.
--Te I know well. I know that it is reason why it taught to you your father that you tried to obtain what you wanted this way absurd. This time I will not make positions, because Jennifer is unharmed. But if you return a...
One stopped and one rubbed the eyes. Suddenly it had much dream and, when raising the stairs, seemed a drunkard.
Shortly after which Travis left the hotel, Regan returned to its apartment, stunned. Farrell waited for it.
-- Regan, please, you must say to me what happens. Somebody has made damage to your daughter?
--No -- it murmured --. I do not know it. I cannot decirte nothing.
-- Siéntale insisted, surrounding it with its arm --, and cuéntamelo mud.
In few Regan minutes it told history him.
-- and Travis left you here so that you suffered single? -- I asked) Farrell, surprised --. You do not have idea of which a is passing him your own daughter and you must trust that it recovers it of hands of his ex- ones loving?
-- Yes -- it responded with impotence --. Travis said.. .
-- and from when you leave another person directs your life? Perhaps you would not prefer to be not here with your daughter and, without knowing nothing?
—¡Yes! -- it exclaimed, putting itself of foot --. By supuesto that if.
-- Then, vamonos. We will start off immediately.
-- Both?
--Si -- Farrell, returning it of hand --. said We are friends, and the friends must help themselves in the misfortunes.
Only later, when they went in the car course to the south, towards the plantation of Travis, Regan noticed that it had not said to anybody where it went. Nevertheless, not pensó much in that, because too much it was worried by the security of its daughter.
They traveled during several hours. The car went demasiado slowly for the taste of Regan, and in a while it was become sleepy. It woke up steeply when Farrell touched the arm to him. It was standing in the ground, to his side; the car had stopped.
-- Why we stop? -- Regan asked. Farrell it made to go down of the car.
-- Necesitas to rest, and we must speak.
—¡To speak! Regan --. exclaimed We can speak later, and I do not need to rest.
It tried to separate from him, but Farrell maintained it with firmness.
-- Regan, you know how much I love to you? You knew long ago that time I fell in love with you in England? Your uncle offered money to me and I accepted it, but contigo without the incentive of the money would have married me. Eras so sweet e innocent, so charming...
In its affliction, Regan did not repair in which it was single with that man in the middle of a separated forest.
—¡Oh, by all skies, Farrell! What I have done so that you create to me so stupid idiot? You never loved to me and nunca you will love to me. Only that you want is my money, which vas not to obtain. Then, why not you portholes like a good boy, you return to your poor man and pretty house in England and you leave me peacefully.
In opening and closing of eyes, Farrell struck it and girl fell of backs against the vehicle.
-- How you dare to speak to me thus? My family desciende of kings, whereas your ancestors have been simples merchants. The fact of which it must reduce to me to marry to me with a woman like you, who know more of countable books that of embroiders, are...
While Farrell spoke, Regan began to recuperar itself. Much more important that their problems with Farrell were their preoccupation by Jennifer. Still of knees by the fall, it undertook against him and it gave him with head justo between the legs.
Farrell was left dubbing in two by the pain and Regan
it took advantage of to escape.
It threw a look to the car and saw that Farrell had uncoupled the horses sufficient so that nonconstituyera means flight express. One rose the skirts and it threw to run of return to the way. Just on time, it saw an old and ruinous cart that disappeared in a curve. Recurrió to all its energies to reach it.
It lead a old one of great gray sideburns.
—¡It persecutes a man to me! Regan explained to him, corriendo on a par of the cart.
-- and it must catch it? -- the old one asked, obviamente amused by the situation.
—¡It wants to force to me to marry to me with him, because quiere my money! ¡But I want to marry with a norteamericano!
The patriotism decided the man. Without at least to lessen the march, grasped the arm of Regan and it raised it the cart as if no nothing weighed. With another movement
express located in the part (rasera covered it by completo with cereal coats.
Seconds later it appeared Farrell to horse, and Regan its voice contained the breath when hearing. For a moment, the old one pretended to be d
eaf, and one refused to that Farrell reviewed cairela; when he insisted, the man he unholstered a pistola. Finally it admitted grudgingly to have seen pass a three men, one of which took to a woman bonita, Farrell started off in average of a dust cloud.
--Ya can leave -- the old one said, while it took arm of Regan and made happen to the seat.
The girl rubbed the arm and contained desires of to request to him that she let deal with it as if outside one his cereal coats. It sneezed several times and soon it asked the man if it knew where it was Stanford plantation, in Virginia.
--Es very far. They are several days of trip.
--No if we changed of horses and we traveled all the night. I will pay to the horses and all the expenses to him.
The man observed minutes.
-- Perhaps we pruned to do something. I will take to the plus deprisa to it possible if it says to me why it persecuted that English and why it looks for Travis. Or it is to Wesley that it looks for?
--Le I will count everything, and Travis is mine.
-- Young lady, will not have time to become bored -- she commented old, laughing between teeth, and it urged on the horses so that they moved.
In few seconds they advanced by the way to everything speed. Regan was maintained with both hands and dientes castañeteaban to him constantly. It could not speak nor count no history.
One hour later the old one stopped the cart, was gotten off and it helped it to lower.
-- What does? Regan asked to him.
-- Iremos in boat -- it responded --. I will leave it in the door same of Travis.
They walked more of a kilometer until arriving at a cabin and to a wharf, on a narrow brook. Hombre entered the cabin and returned with a canvas coat
-- Vamonos -- it said, and it raised it a so ruinous boat
like the cart.
Once they started up, the old one said:
-- Now it speaks.
Days later, the man left to Regan in muelle of the plantation of Travis, where one took leave of her and he wished good luck him. It was early in the morning and the plantation was in silence while Regan it ran towards
the house.
The door was open, and Regan raised the stairs saying so that Travis and Jennifer were sleeping in one of rooms. It began to open a door after another one, cursing to the house by to be so great and to make him perder as much time.
