CHAPTER 12
ConvalescenceI do not know how much time had passed before a shadow passed into the one-room house. I looked up and saw Anne standing over me, holding a basket of fruits, nuts, and other fine things to eat. She knelt beside me and placed the basket down next to my arm.
“Richard said that you had returned and that you were seriously wounded.” Her eyes darted at my wounded thigh. “I brought these for you. My father always said nothing restores health but good fresh fruit. I picked them outside the fort where they are clearing the land. Richard showed me what to pick, and he even knows the Indian names for them. Oh, don’t worry. They are not poisonous. I tasted each one and found them quite sweet and delicious. The nuts have a hard shell, so you will have to break them with somet
