Go that way - Chapter 10
A young boy came up behind everyone and told them that the girl, who looked like a princess, had arrived early at the orphanage running, that she was carrying a bag of sweet bread with her, but that she quickly left the room running with her backpack and the sleeping cherubic boy on her lap and that she ran up the hill; right here from this window, I saw her passing up there, at the beginning of that road, but then she disappeared. Nathan bent down and thanked the child, saying you saved the day. Everyone looked at the window, and after Gab explained that it was the road the stage was on. Henry went on to say how did she disappear if you can see the whole road from here?
Let's go there Gab... They all climbed into their cars and onto their horses, Nathan onto his newton, Bill onto his horse and Gab onto hers. Arriving at the road, they all started looking around, Nathan didn't know what to expect, she was so fragile, and at the moment he couldn't even think straight for fear of what might happen to them.
- This way, into the small forest. Bill went on.
- But Bill, what are we going to do there, she would never go into the forest and risk getting lost? Ned said indignantly.
Nathan and Gab, look at this?
- Bill, is that a different police symbol?
- No Gab, look at it this way... it's a police symbol, now look from this angle there's a teacher symbol and from this angle Grace.
- Wait, my God, she's giving hints, look. Tom Thornton was on the train with a woman called Grace Marie.
Bill and Henry said it at the same time. Henry went on to say, I had a hard time getting her name, I always thought it was Elizabeth Thatcher, until the day of Jack Thornton's funeral, when they said it was the widow Elizabeth Grace Marie Thatcher Thornton.
They went into the woods and it became more and more difficult, as she passed here, and left no trace, Nathan thought she was a great investigator and tracker, as he was one of the best at following prisoners. Where did this woman learn that? Ned looked at the ground and shouted that there were small footprints that looked like women. Lee, Lucas and Pastor Frank also shouted the same. After a few minutes, everyone found her footprints everywhere, Bill let out a huge laugh and no one understood why he was laughing. Bill was red from laughing so hard. As soon as he calmed down a bit, he called everyone together and said:
- Henry, what did she do at the mine that year?
- All the women said, If the Princess of Hamilton is in the mine, then we're going too. In two nights and two days, they managed to clear everything and so I had to give the houses to widows. And she came out of the mine every day smiling at everyone, we men knew how tired they were, because we'd been there and worked there, but she was full of coal and all we could see were her eyes and she came out smiling every day.
Gab asked: but didn't Jack stop Elizabeth from going into the mine when it was so dangerous?
Nathan said he knew about this story, and Elizabeth said: Are you going to stop the other women? Well no, because we know you can't by law. Then you can't stop me either...
Ned, what did she do when you almost died?
- I shudder to this day, but she ran up, ripped off my blouse, squeezed my chest several times and blew into my mouth with her mouth, and she kept repeating it. I was faint, my heart stopped and she kept doing this maneuver, without even being afraid of prejudice or of society or of her own reputation. She did this until Carson got to me. The doctor explained to everyone that this technique is still rarely used, he himself is taking courses and learning, but there were already several books, and that's how she learned it. by reading the books, she is an intelligence in person.
Lee, what happened when they wouldn't let you pass between the two farms to get your wood?
-Ha, she saw that her parents were at war, so she made her children understand, and so the parents learned to talk to their children. Em, but first she had to take care of Mr. Benson's pigs and Mr. Mile's terrified chickens, after which they looked at her with great respect.
Nathan stopped the conversation and said, Guys, where is this leading? We're wasting time!
But for Bill, Florence's ex-cop, he was experienced, Guys, look here...you stay on these tracks, Gab you stay on this one, Lucas stay on this one, Ned stay on this one and Lee here. That's when Nathan began to notice and his crooked smile appeared. Lucas was puzzled, but how did she go everywhere and nowhere?
She was Jack Thornton's wife, that guy who caught a gang with red towels pretending to be a mountie, he taught her a few things and she taught him a few that I'm sure he used in the war. He gave her three riding lessons and that woman was perfect on a horse. Charlote taught her twice how to tame a wild horse and before we knew it she was doing it. And you Nathan, you saw her with Sargent when he arrived. Throwing Jack took four days of teaching, after the lesson I remember Jack despondently saying that he had loved teaching Beth, but she was a great student, and that saddened him in a way.
- He should be happy, Henry went on. When Lee and Bill laughed out loud, but it's just that every mistake she made, she promised a kiss, meaning she was never wrong, but the lessons were over quickly.
This is our mountie training, yes; as Nathan and Gab realized, but with the mind of a teacher, to make it more complicated, look at this, police training with a teacher's joke...
Bill walked normally...
Bill walked to the right...
Bill walked to the left...
Bill walked backwards...
Then Bill took off his shoes and put them on backwards and walked. Then on tiptoe he took another route, wiping out with a stick of foliage. The shoe marks led to all but one place where Bill went barefoot. She was going to take the stage somewhere along the road, but without leaving the forest. So the gentlemen went through the forest and the others by car.
- Bill, do you think she might not have taken the stage? Will some of them leave town early in their own transport? It was a doubt that now hung over their heads...