CHAPTER 19

Lee, choked and looked at everyone and took Elizabeth's hands and said:

- Elizabeth, I want you to give me permission to do something, because it's very important to me and Rose, we want our little daughter to be called Elizabeth Marie Leveaux Coulter, she will be our Bella.

Tears flowed down Elizabeth's face, who hugged Lee and started talking about baby Bella and the day of her arrival. It was a wonderful breakfast.

Florence took charge of the classes that day, after all Elizabeth had been through a lot. Philip was gone all day, he went on his rounds and decided to stay there all day, so he asked Bill to take care of the prisoners and Jessy and Hickman would take turns taking care of the police station and the prisoners Charles and William Thatcher until if it solved the problem of transport for their transfer, they knew that there was a diligence coming from a nearby city with some mounties bound for União City, but as it broke down on the way and the maintenance would take a week or maybe even more, so not yet There was a specific day for their transfer. Philip was avoiding seeing those two men, and he explained this to Bill, who didn't want to lose his temper with them, as it might jeopardize his judgment. Also, I wanted to get away from everyone because I needed some peace, I needed to stop thinking about Elizabeth and the baby, but that I would never tell Bill or anyone else.

Riding to Laura's father's farm, where he promised to check some fences and some places with him, which were damaged and thus know if it was done by some animal or by some malicious bandit, in this way they would know if there was more evildoers prowling the city, an image wouldn't get out of his head, he saw a woman in the rocking chair, with a beautiful baby in her arms and at her feet a small child with blond hair playing, he leaning against the red twill doorframe , looking at the three, where his heart exploded with love, that's when the young woman lifted her head and he saw who it was... It was... It was... Elizabeth!

Philip shook his head, now he was lost, every moment he thought of her and their children with her. He who never wanted to get married, a man who preached that if the police wanted us to get married, they would give us a wife. And today he only dreamed of a baby, a family, children and his wife Elizabeth, it wasn't just any woman it was Elizabeth, and right in that dream even awake, he was much more than happy and fulfilled.

He continued on his way and soon arrived at the Milly.O house. Laura's father showed the two sheds that had been broken into and looted, mainly machinery for use in the field, everything happened while the day before, he had gone to the city to pick up Laura at Elizabeth's house, as she was cleaning the house while her teacher was hospitalized, but as it was too late for her to come back alone, he decided to pick her up.

Meanwhile, Jessy sent for Bill to the police station, as William and Charles, were agitated, shouting a lot and threatening everyone in town due to the interference with the problems with their daughter and their inappropriate arrest. Until then Bill had not let Elizabeth go to the police station, he explained to her, that this was what was best for everyone and that was what her uncle Wynn Delane asked. Elizabeth was very excited to hear that she would see her uncle, she had loved him like a father ever since. Bill, arriving at the police station, had to put order in the place, in addition to adding to the papers of the two prisoners, a complaint of contempt of authority. These two men thought that their riches could buy everything, including their daughter, the mountie, judges and whatever else was needed to carry out their plans, but they messed with the wrong people, Elizabeth was a person very loved by many people. , a great battle front was being built and well organized in strategies to save and take care of her case. In addition to Bill and the townspeople, the mounties were already aware because a mountie always looks out for his fallen brother and his family, and to top it off he carried the weight of the name of Wynn Delane and his family, the judge who would take over the trial and the prosecutor, who would be the same one who defended the women in the case of the mining company in Hope Valle, and everyone had been in love with Elizabeth since that time. We also knew that Captain Nathan and other mounties who served or knew Jack in the Northern Territories, look for Collins and were also going to be in this story, Charles and William were going to get into big trouble, it messed with Elizabeth, it messed with everyone. Bill needed a break, he needed to see Abigail, she could give him some peace and that was all he needed right now.