from Part One, between June, 1844 and March, 1845
"I wanted to lay your concerns to rest, Ma'am," Ham drawled. "It was kind of you to call Doctor Evans, and I apologize for being generally impossible to live with. "
Maeve looked at him in astonishment. "Doctor Evans said you were feverish, and you seemed to be in pain. Hamilton, what happened last night?"
"Last night, Ma'am?" Ham seemed to be thinking hard. "Would you believe me if I told you Nat Grover drugged our punch and hired someone to try to kill us?"
"What?" Maeve stood up. "How can you stand there and speak such a lot of nonsense? Why do you hate Mr. Grover so much? What has he done to you?"
Ham took a deep breath. "Well then," he said in a low voice, "Since that's how you respond, you got a bit faint and I got a bit thirsty and I sent you home and went out and wet my whistle. "
Maeve appeared to be studying him. "You were drunk, and suffered from a hangover," Maeve summarized finally.
"In essence, that is what must have occurred," Ham replied. "Since Mr. Grover is sacrosanct from my unprovable accusations."
"Hamilton?" Maeve said suddenly.
"Yes, Ma'am?" Ham asked.
"The story you told about Goliad," Maeve said, looking pained, "Was it some sort of alcoholic raving or did you tell a true tale?"
Ham looked away. "A true tale, Ma'am," he said. "I could never be intoxicated enough to show so much disrespect to the memory of that event as to fabricate a tale about it."
"Thank you," Maeve said.
Send a White Rose by Mary C. Findley
Leah Masters came to the New Mexico Territory hoping to make a “mail order match” with handsome Judge Bartholomew Durant. She fainted at his feet and when she woke up discovered she had stepped into an assassination plot with her hot-tempered brother as the prime suspect.
Who does Bart Durant trust when facing revolution theology and a still-unknown assassin? How can he ignore the sudden realization that his heart might already belong to someone else besides the woman he still thinks is a stuck-up weakling?
from Chapter Two
Bartholomew struggled to move, but his limbs did not seem to belong to him. The sun climbed higher. His injuries throbbed with dull insistence.
"Help!" he groaned. It was faint, barely recognizable as a word.
"What? Another dead man?" The words were Spanish; the voice that of a small child, curious and unafraid.
"Por favor, niño, ayúdame," he said thickly. "Go to the city and bring help. "
"Oh, no, I cannot bring anybody here. They will find the things I took and papa will beat me again. "
"I promise no one will harm you if you bring help. Please, I may die if you don't. "
"You talk an awful lot for a gringo muerto. I have things to do. "
Bartholomew caught sight of a half-wild rose climber in the chapel garden. White roses.
"You -- you know la Señorita Alethia at the Orphanage? I am sure ... she would give you a sweet … if you ... pick the prettiest white rose on that bush over there and take it to her."
"It is a good thing I have my burro, or I would not go. It is a long way. I will be back later, but I will not have any more time to waste on you, dead man. I hope you will be quiet, like the other one is. "
Bartholomew did not answer, and the footsteps shuffled away.
Carrie's Hired Hand by Mary C. Findley (Novella)
Carrie Wilkes is the Northern widow of a Southern soldier in the middle of the Civil War. Robert Salinger may be handsome but his promise to take care of Ben's family rings hollow as she struggles alone with the farm work. She is grateful to give a deaf and dumb stranger work for food and a place to stay. Southern soldiers come with accusations of spying. Robbie's "secret code" might spell terror for Carrie and her children.
"God bless you … for all you've done, Rob," Ben whispered, half-opening his eyes and gripping Robert's shoulder. The handsome young man continued his work, but he stared at Ben with the same look of intensity he had given Carrie. "You're …that friend that … sticketh closer than a brother … the Scriptures …talk about."
"Not now, Ben," murmured Robert, turning his eyes away. "Talk to your wife. She's very frightened."
"Carrie Sue, I love you," Ben said, reaching out a hand and stroking Carrie's hair.
"I love you too, Ben." Carrie said. "We'll get you home and everything will be fine."
"Carrie, Rob got you here … because I ain't comin' home," Ben gasped. He patted Robert weakly on the arm, and the young man looked up at his face again. "Rob, I gotta wet my whistle."
Robert produced a canteen and Carrie gave Ben a drink. He choked and groaned. "Carrie, I don't … want to leave you … alone like this," Ben said when he could speak again. "All alone."
"I'll look after them, Ben," Robert said suddenly, gripping the dying man's shoulder. "As God is my witness. This was my doing, and I will take care of your family."
"The work's got to get done … " Ben said faintly.
"It will," Robert promised. Carrie couldn't help wondering how this slight young man, dapper in spite of the filth around them, was going to help get the farm work done.
"You give me the Lord, Rob," Ben said. "Try to give Him to my Carrie, an' my babies too."
Carrie strained to hear. What Ben had just said didn't make any sense. Robert nodded.
"I will try," he said softly.
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Based on biblical, scientific, and ancient manuscript evidence, this book begins a series studying history, science and literature to correct misconceptions and outright lies about creation, chronology, and geological and cosmological truth.
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Based on biblical, scientific, and ancient manuscript evidence, this book covers the period from the Fall of Man to the Worldwide Flood.
A Dodge, a Twist, and a Tobacconist, The Alexander Legacy Book One: by Sophronia Belle Lyon
The Alexander Legacy Company is on the track of a ruthless enslaver of souls. Prowl the foggy London streets. Encounter a nightmare from the Indian jungles.
Travel the Thames in Sluefoot Sue's Giant Catfish. Soar on a stealth glider with a Bohemian prince. When Oliver Twist unwraps the Algerian mummy at Charley Bates' funeral, will he discover his real enemy? Or is it all just another "dodge"?
"He's going to ram Twist's ship," Kera breathed. "They'll both crash into the house and Mrs. Rose just might have her bomb going off."
I ran along the edge of the roof as if I were looking for a shot. But I already knew my pistol was empty, useless, and the guard was trying to get around another gable to get a clear shot while staying behind cover. I had come to a conclusion a moment earlier that I dared not say out loud lest I be grabbed and thrown down on the roof by both women, but I knew what I had to do.
Just as the spy craft hove around the corner of the house, only a few feet away from the airship, I launched myself off the roof. The smaller ship disappeared and my heart leaped in panic at the thought of being sliced into quarters by the tail rotor. But my fingertips caught hold of a solid object. I found the fuselage of the spy ship and wrapped my legs around it. The thing slewed and spun and began to fall tail-first toward the green lawn.
The Alexander Legacy Book Two: The 'Pprentices, the Puppets, and the Pirates, by S
ophronia Belle Lyon
Can Oliver Twist trust Spring-heeled Jack when he offers to “bodyguard the little’un”? Do costume balls conceal more than the faces of the wealthy and powerful? Trevor Newsome disappears just days before the election but the Legacy Company can't search for him from the London Lockup. When the trip to Switzerland finally becomes a reality, it's for a funeral, not for a wedding.
Quests for immortality meld with the worship of powerful men, with terrifying and tragic consequences. When Long John Silver arrives, Oliver has to think fast to protect more than just his own life from the pirate who says he only cares about rescuing his daughter.
"Twist! Look out!" I spun and swung wildly as the crack of a Colt revolver split the air. Sluefoot Sue had both her firearms out and was shooting at something below me. To my astonishment tentacles rose out of the Thames and wrapped themselves around the Catfish. Each time one of Sue's bullets struck them they disappeared under the water again, but when she paused to reload they re-emerged and began to reach for me, climbing the Catfish sub. I hastily winched myself over toward the dock but a tentacle grabbed hold of my leg just as I started to set myself down. It flung me down on the dock and started dragging me to the edge.
"Hey, boss lady!" Dobbs, Sue's assistant, hollered out from inside the workshop. I was just able to see a pump-action shotgun cartwheel through the air and land in Sue's gloved hands. Just before it began to blast me deaf, I realized that it was in fact no ordinary shotgun, rather had some sort of gattling action, and a bit more. I hoped I would get a better look at it rather than end up 20,000 leagues under in some sea monster's maw.
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