Saturday Snippet: I should have gone

Today's snippet is taken from

Lucy

by Zina Abbott

Prairie Roses Collection

 

          “I should have gone.” Lucy hung herhead and studied the ground on which she stepped. If I had gone, too, I could have taken care of Noah and Isaac for Papa.As much as she had not cared for her stepmother, Lucy had always loved herlittle half-brothers. When her father gathered his new wife and two sons andleft Kansas, she had grieved their loss as much as she missed her papa.

          “We cannot worry about what might havebeen, Lucy. Your father only knew that, along with everyone who raced toCalifornia in search of gold, word had filtered back that there was plenty ofgood farmland there, too. That was what he was after. However, with so manygold-seekers, and considering how greed brings out the worst in people, Ifeared it might be more dangerous than staying in Kansas. You did not wish togo. I worried that if you left, not only would your life and virtue be indanger, but you could not achieve your dream of gaining enough education toteach school.”

          “That is true, Aunt Caroline. However,once Papa worked for that freighter in Genoa long enough to recover from hisordeal, and then followed the man’s advice to help his now-wife with her farm,things have worked out well for him. At least, that’s what he says in hisletters. There are several children where he lives now in California—five fromhis own household.” Besides Noah and Isaac, Lucy’s thoughts turned to herstep-sister, Susan, and her step-brother, Tim, she knew only through her papa’sletters. I have a half-sister, Alice,I’ve never met. “They would benefit from attending a school close by. If Ihad gone—”

          “Itdoes no good to fret over what could have been in life, Lucy. The decision was made. We must accept it and moveforward.

 
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