She gave us each a nightgown and showed us to our room. Then she went to her own bed. 

“What a sweet woman,” Alice said. “I hope her grandson does come to get her tomorrow.”

“Me too, I hate to leave her here alone.” We were at the back of the house, so I turned my solar lantern on low and put my gun under my pillow.

“So far this hasn’t been too bad. We’ve had two amazing meals and we are sleeping inside in a real bed tonight.”

“We have thirty-eight miles to go. We did around sixteen today and I think the most we can do tomorrow will be twenty unless your husband shows up in his truck, we will still have one more night...

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