Go West by DiVoran Lites Chapter Forty-one Aldon It was time for fall round-up, and Aldon was anxious to move the cattle down the mountain before they decided to move themselves. The three-year-old cows had such a strong homing instinct that if no one came for them by the end of summer they’d start down on their own. He knew if that happened the cattle could fall … [Read more...]
Go West~Chapter 40
Go West by DiVoran Lites Chapter Forty Ellie shares a secret “Now tell me about your life in the mountains,” said Vera. Ellie thought a minute, then decided that since she and her mother were starting a new, freer relationship she could tell her something she had not spoken of to anyone. “I’ve been teaching the children’s Sunday School class at the Community Church in … [Read more...]
Go West~Chapter 39
Go West by DiVoran Lites Chapter Thirty-Nine Ellie and Vera Vera kept talking long after Ellie’s heart had slid into her stomach. Now she wanted the tale to go back to being a secret, but it was too late. Elegant Mr. Louis Norton had used her mother and discarded her. The result was that Ellie was illegitimate. She knew bad names existed for children whose parents … [Read more...]
Go West~Chapter 38
Go West by DiVoran Lites Chapter Thirty-Eight Ellie and Vera “I don’t think you will understand about your father, but you’re right, it’s time you knew. I’ll start with my family. Dad was a miner from Wales, and mother was a farm girl he met and married on his way to Colorado. He heard they needed miners in Rockridge, which is high up in the mountains. I was born there in … [Read more...]
