The moonlight shown their way home on the dark, vast land.  They rode in silence for quite a ways, Dessie listening to the wagon wheels turn in the grasses, until Adam broke the silence.  He had been glancing at her from time to time and she noticed it out of the corner of her eye.  She stared straight ahead, minding her manners.  His voice was shy, but sure.

     “Would you mind if,” he started then paused.  He was nervous, even though he tried so hard not to be. She heard him swallow and then he continued.  “If I was to be your beau?”

     Only Dessie’s manners reminded her to contain her excitement or she might have forgotten herself and hugged the man to pieces.  She stared at th...

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