Saturday Snippet - I Sure Know What THAT Feels Like

Today's Saturday Snippet is taken from

Hal's Lucky Escape

Rejected Mail-Order Grooms, Book 9

by Zina Abbott 

…Still, I suspect, even though you cannot return to guard duty on the stage route any time soon, you could manage the job Kurt needs doing.”

          “Which is…”

          “After his aunt died, his cousin and her daughter were booted off of the family farm by the brother who inherited.”

          “Bad break, to be driven from home like that. I sure know what that feels like. Wait! You said her? As in, a woman? What does he want us to do about it?”

          “Yes. The cousin is the oldest daughter. A war widow. Her late husband lived and worked on his family’s farm, so he didn’t have his own property to pass to his wife and daughter. And it’s you, Hal, not us. I’m not in a position to do anything other than act as a go-between. Since she needs to find a new home, she wants to live near family. She wants to move close to Kurt.”

          “Humph.” Hal twisted his lips as he turned his head aside. After his brother, Neil, pushed him out, he left all his family behind. He had not seen nor written to any of them in two years. “Why not take the train?” Hal returned his gaze to Ash. “If the brother wants her gone, he should scrape together the money for tickets and send her on her way.”

          “She’ll have train tickets to the end of the line. I gather the older of the two brothers is seeing to it the younger one will pay his fair share. But, where she wants to go beyond that requires either a long covered wagon trip or a ride in a steamboat.”

          “Sounds like some of those months-long military campaigns the Army sent us on.” Hal rolled his eyes.

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