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With the weddings happening
in less than a week things had to pick up or they wouldn’t be ready. This meant they needed to unload the mules and
find the dress material and make the dresses.
Elise told the boys that they
would have to take care of the goods they brought and stock the shelves because
the women had other things to do. They
didn’t argue, but they were hoping to spend some time with their future wives.
Elise said that would have to
wait until they had finished all the chores pertaining to the weddings. She told them after they got the stock tended
to they should go and help finish their homes.
After thinking it over they
saw the logic to that for they wanted to have a place of their own to move
into. A lot of things could be made later
but they needed a roof and a bed for sure.
The day before the weddings
Jean and Lucas arrived back into camp. They
were pretty tired and need a bath or at least clean up a bit. After being gone about ten days and were
pretty gamy. Everyone had a lot of
questions to ask them but they were so busy they didn’t have the time to go
into it.
Lucas had slipped and cut his
hand that needed to be treated. The Doc took
him into the surgery and sewed it up and smeared some bear grease on it to keep
it moist. The Doc wanted to know where
they went first and then why.
Lucas said we went down the
river a piece and did a little hunting and fishing. Doc said and what else? Lucas said, “That is about all I can remember.”
Doc saw that he wasn’t going
to get much out of him this way so he said, “You wasn’t visiting that Indian
woman you are kind of sweet on did you?”
Lucas smiled and said, “Now
you know all my women live north of here.”
Doc said, “I don’t know it
seems there was one who lived on the other side of the river that you had a
hankering for.” Lucas said, “Yea there
is that one now that you mention it.”
The Doc was finished with Lucas’s hand so he said, “Get out of here I’ve got other things to do.”
As Lucas left he thought, “I
wonder if I have time to go on the other side of the river and back before the
wedding - - probably not but afterwards, since with this hand I can’t do much
work.”
Doc Adams was looking forward
to the wedding being over for Elaina was spending a lot of her time helping
them get everything ready. It wasn’t
that he was against all of the fussing; it was that he needed help in what he
called “The Clinic.”
By nightfall every thing was
ready and tomorrow the wedding and the party would begin. Elise wanted to get to bed early for she would
have to get up early and wake up all the ones who were going to help put this
shindig on.
She woke up before daylight
and got started. On her first trip
outside she saw the Indians already making the fire for the different kinds of
meat they were going to cook.
When Elise
looked the meat over she was of the opinion that only the Indians would eat
some of it. The morning was passing
quickly.
The catholic priest had
arrived and was talking first to the brides and then to the grooms. He wanted to marry both at the same time so
there would be no waiting by the ones married first. Even though Grandfather wasn’t related to any
of the ones getting married he pronounced a blessing on them all.
Jean watched and fifteen
minutes later they were married. He
thought it should have taken longer because of all the time and money it took
to accomplish what happened.
The brides and grooms went to
their new houses and changed into something more comfortable. For some reason it took Phillip and Lesley two
hours or more to get changed.
Jean thought he must have
been the only one who noticed it but when he looked at Elise she winked at him.
It was after midnight before the party
was over but about nine Elise and Jean went to their bed for it had been two
weeks since he had been alone with her.
The next morning they get up
later than usual and while still lying in bed Elise wanted to now what his trip
down the river was all about.
He said,
“You will know in a few days.”
To be
Continued
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