Chapter 5The talk with Pa didn’t leave me feeling any easier. Maybe I ought to take another trip to the Killpennys and get a spark going with Minnie…uh, Min. That idea didn’t raise much interest, so I decided to wait until the next time we met at church. That probably wouldn’t be until November when we’d celebrate Thanksgiving Day. The fact that was another five months down the road didn’t rankle any.
Turned out the wait wasn’t that long. Ma wanted to have her brothers over for Independence Day, and Pa decided to make it a real party when we got word Otter and James were coming for a visit. He invited the Killpennys. Our hundred-and-first national birthday fell on Wednesday. The outgoing stage to Fort Ramson came in on Tuesday, and the inbound for Yanube City went through on Thursday, so
