One by one, as their husbands claimed them, the women left the platform, a few getting into automobiles or trucks but most into wagons. “Six months since I’ve seen you, and I’ve the right to a little affection,” she said. As his face turned red, he removed her arms. Women got off the train and stood on the metal platform and searched the crowd for their husbands, then smiled when they found them.īelle watched one woman as she hugged a man.
Carrie had told her they were immigrants, people who had come to America from other countries hoping for a better life. A woman wearing a worn shawl over her head tried to hold on to half a dozen children, talking to them in a language Belle didn’t understand. A boy helped his father lift bags of seeds out of one of the cars and stack them on the depot platform. She saw men removing farm equipment that had come in on the train and putting it into wagons. Perhaps he was lost in the crowd of people milling about. Was Carrie suggesting that if she hadn’t asked about Papa, Mama wouldn’t have noticed he wasn’t there to meet them?īelle searched the depot, hoping to spot her father. Where’s Papa?” Belle Martin asked, looking around the train station.Ĭarrie shook her head. Colorado-History-1876-1950-Fiction.Ĭlassification: LCC PZ7.D16 | DDC -dc23įor Forrest and his cousin, the amazing Magnolia Marie Cole.Ĭhapter Twenty-Two: Mrs.
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