A/N-I'm a little bit later with this chapter than I would like to be but I got the wind knocked out of me yesterday, I do hope you enjoy this chapter! I would like to thank Ultimatelaurafan for helping me in certain passeages.
Two men helped drag Jonathon into a cabin with only a few things inside of it, a big fireplace, a table for eating with 5 chairs around it, a heater for the room and a single bed, that's what they took Jonathon over to. The men gently lay him down and Sam Higgings says, "One of you go get the doc" Just then they hear a female voice saying, "I'll go get him Mister Higgings, I'm the faster than all of you" Sam turns around and says, "Thank you young lady, now shoo!" Bethany turns and goes to the town of Beaver Pass in the fastest hurry she can.
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A little while later, a older man with grey hair, glasses and a dark gray suit on, puts strips of bandages on Jonathon's chest and he grumbles, "Never ceases to amaze me how a man can hurt himself" Just then a booming voice says, "Now don't get on him too much doc, from what I hear he did it to save Sam from that tree" The doctor looks around then says, "Didn't know you where here Sheriff" Sheriff Arness smiles then says, "In this small town , you can't keep news like this down, anyway, I'm not a Bible reading man but it seems to me the good book says something like a man giving his life for a friend" Bethany speaks up and says, "'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends John 15: 13'" The sheriff smiles and says, "Thank you Bethany" Sam then speaks up and says, "Is he going to be okay doc Abram?" Jonathon groans then the doc says, "He'll be okay but he's not going to work the rest of the time, I can tell you that" Jonathon weakly says, "I ...need...the money...doc" "What you need to do is stay in that bed, I'll let you know when you can get out!" The doc then gathers up his supplies to leave and Sam says, "He'll stay in that bed if I have to hire guards on him!"
Jonathon barely smiles and the sheriff says, "I'll go with you back to town doc...Jonathon, you best mind, I know doc's wife and she's been know to get madder than a bantam hen when people don't mind her husband so you stay in that bed" Sam then says, "Don't worry doc, you'll get paid" The doctor waves his hand then says, "Oh, I'm a old man, my wife and I don't need more than a couple of old chickens" Sam says, "I know you need more than that old man, the stuff you have in that office was made by cavemen!" "Hmpf!"
The funny little doctor stomps off then Jonathon says, "Sheriff, I thought that owl was supposed to bring good luck" Sheriff Arness smiles then says very slowly, "I'd say it was luck that you lived...don't you?" Everybody smiles and the sheriff closes the door then a few minutes later, it opens again and in comes another middle aged man and he says, "Mister Higgings! The cook just quit!" Sam grabs his hat off his head and throws it to the floor and says, "Dad burn it! what else can happen today?" Bethany snaps her head up and says, "Oh please mister Higgings, can I try out for that?" He scratches his chin then says, "Well, I don't know Jonathon then speaks up as much as he can then says, "She was bringing me a peach pie...sure smells good" She proudly hands up the peach pie and Higgings smells it and gets it and tastes it then says, "Hmmmm, sure smells good but a cook has to be able to cook more than a pie, can you make something else?" She brightens up and says, "I sure can! I can have you a meal put together in no time! just watch me!" "Well, you just go on out to the camp cook place little lady, any of those hands out there will show you the way" She runs out there like a busy bee and he says to the bunch inside, "We just may finally have us a cook"
They all smile and Jonathon lays back and they wait for a meal.