This is my first Bonanza fic .......so be nice. The Character of Rebekah and her father comes from one of the Bonanza episodes.

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"Rebekah!", called Rebekah's father as she bought in the matzoh that she had just prepared for the Pesach service. "Very good. Rebekah. Hurry now the guests will be here soon.", her father said as he took the matzoh from her. She quickly went back into the kitchen to see to the rest of the meal. She opened the wood burning stove to check on the roast chicken and the matzah kugel. Rebekah's father smiled as the aroma from the evening meal swept through the house.

"Father, everything is ready. Here are the bowls. I'll bring out the wine in just a moment.", Rebekah said as she checked once more to ensure that everything was properly placed on the seder plate before going to fetch the wine and the goblets. As she did, she and her father heard an incessant knocking on the door.

"The guests must be here.", Rebekah's father said as he went to answer the door.

"You Murdering JEW!", a man yelled as he and many men with him drug him out of his home.

"Father......What are you doing?", Rebekah cried only to have the front door slammed in her face as the men put him on a horse and placed a rope around his neck.

"What is going on here?", a voice called as Rebekah ran from the back of the house to the front.

"Sheriff!!! They're trying to hang my father!", Rebakah cried. "They called him a murdering jew.", she quickly added as the sheriff fired two shots in the air.

"Get him off of that horse! They'll be no Lynchings in Carson!", the sheriff yelled as the grumbling mob complied.

"He murdered my new born daughter for them BLOOD LIBELS!", a man yelled.

"I would never do that sheriff. Rebekah get back inside. This, you do not need to see.", her father commanded.

"But Papa!", she cried.

"Get back in the house.", her father sternly commanded.

"It's alright ma'am. I'll see he gets a fair trial.", the sheriff said gently.

"If he did murder your daughter, then he'll be tried for it.", the sheriff said coldly as Rebakah complied with her father's wishes and went back into the house. As soon as she got into the house she started trembling uncontrollably and collapsed in tears in the living room.

"And I say we LYNCH him now!", the father of the alleged dead baby said.

"And I say if you try that you will be the one on trial for murder Sam. Let him off of the horse. Turn him over to me. As I said before there will be no lynchings in Carson.", the sheriff said with his pistol in hand.

"Fine you win this round Jewboy ........but you won't win the next one.", Sam said. "I'll lynch you yet Jew. You and your daughter.", Sam thought as the sheriff took Rebekah's father over to the jail house.

As Rebekah sobbed in the living room she heard a noise from the kitchen. She stopped sobbing and grabbed a fire poker.

"Rebekah it's me Sarah. Your neighbor. Come with me. You are not safe here child.", Sarah said as she ran to Rebekah's side and placed her arms about her.

"I can't. Look after dinner for me? I must go. They'll find a way to lynch Papa. It's still the afternoon. Maybe there's still time to save Papa.", Rebekah said tears streaming down her cheeks.

"You are crazy NO? YOU a young lady alone .....how will you save your Papa?", Sarah asked all of her seventy years of love and sorrows showing on her face.

"You are right. Alone I can do nothing. But I know someone who can help. The Cartwrights of the Ponderosa. Adam will help us, even if no one else will.", Rebekah said pulling on her cloak and running out of her house to the livery stable before anyone could stop her.

She quickly paid for the horse that she knew her papa would forbid her to ride and rode with all haste towards Ponderosa land.