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When Ambur and Lucinda made it back to the beginning of the trail she uncovered the bags of gold she had hid and carried them to the house. Ambur asked Lucinda if he should be there when she told them about the gift. She thought about it and said, “Would you Ambur? I’m not sure how they’ll handle this.”
So Ambur waited on the back porch while Lucinda asked her mom and dad to come out. “What’s so important at 9:30 at night that can’t wait till morning?” asked her mom when they stepped out on the back porch. Ambur was sitting on one of the rocking chairs smoking his pipe.
“Good evening, Steve and Kim,” said Ambur. "Luce asked me to be here, she has some news."
Kimberly said, “Ohhh please … Now what … I mean this can't be good or you wouldn’t be here, right?"
Steve said, “Just relax for a second dear, let’s hear it.”
"I don’t know how to tell you this mom and dad so I’ll just come out and say it. Ambur and Honeysuckle wanted to give me a gift. Not a regular gift, a special one. Ambur has the power to give the gift of finding gold to only one person in his lifetime, and he chose me. I can do this. I can find gold.”
Lucinda’s parents just sat there for a minute trying to understand what they just heard. “You mean you’re thinking about doing this?" her dad asked.
“No dad, he already gave it to me.”
“Maybe we should talk about this first," said her mom.
“NO mom, there’s nothing to talk about, Ambur gave me the gift already.”
“Well, maybe you should give it back until you’re sure."
At this point Ambur stood up and said, in a slightly elevated voice, “Steve and Kim I know this has taken you by surprise. What has been done is done. Luce can no longer give it back. It is hers.”
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...which I’m going to split with Frances (that’s the rule you know) and tonight Ambur and I found some more. Lucinda pulled out from her hiking pants two bags of gold. “One of these is for Frances.” Her father holds the gold in his hands and looks at Lucinda. So what I’m trying to say is, I suppose after Ambur divides it up you’ll be getting some more gold. I’m sorry if you didn’t want it," said Lucinda. “No," her dad said, “That’s fine. Bring what you find and I’ll try and figure out what to do next. I guess it’s a good problem to have.”
Ambur then said, “I’m sure Luce will tell you all I’ve said about finding gold. One of the things I've told her is at some point to also be giving. I know Lucinda is that type of person. Finding gold can be a rewarding time if it can be shared with those who may need it.” And with that said Ambur said his goodbyes and headed for home.
“He compromised all the rest of his life, risked signing a note without even knowing whether he could meet it; and, frightened by the trouble yet to come, by the black misery that was about to fall upon him, by the prospect of all the physical privations and moral tortures that he was to suffer, he went to get the new necklace, laying upon the jeweler’s counter thirty-six thousand francs.”
"Doth he love us?" said Pearl, looking up with acute intelligence into her mother's face. "Will he go back with us, hand in hand, we three together, into the town?"
As the afternoon fades away, Bazil starts to worry about his wife, Geraldine because she hasn’t made it home yet. Bazil and Joe walk down to his aunt Clemence’s house to borrow her car because Bazil assumes Geraldine is having car trouble. As Bazil and Joe go to the nearest town, they pass Geraldine in her car. Bazil assumes that she had been to the grocery store, so Bazil and Joe returns home and see Geraldine battered, bloody, vomit on her, and she smelled like gasoline. Bazil puts Geraldine in the back seat and rushes her to the hospital, he and Joe. Bazil found out that Geraldine was raped and needed surgery. No one really tells Joe what happened to his mother, but he over hears that his mother has been raped. Bazil attempts to use the legal system to track down his wife’s attacker and bring him to justice. Bazil is unsuccessful, due to a loophole in the legal system which means that a white man who attacks a Native American woman on tribal land cannot be prosecuted for his crime. Geraldine refuses to speak about what happened to her and she can’t remember where the attack took place. One night, after Bazil forced Geraldine to listen to a silly conversation and he mentions a baby, it reminds Geraldine of the attack that day. Geraldine starts to tell Bazil everything she can remember about the attack, including the girl Mayla and her baby being there. Mayla told Geraldine that she believed she was being stalked and she wants to enroll her baby in the tribe. Mayla and Geraldine were both attacked at the round house. Linden Lark, the attacker threatened to kill Mayla and her baby if Geraldine told what happened. When Geraldine learns that Linden Lark is trying to adopt an orphaned Native American baby, she decides to testify against him. Lark is arrested and the Coutts family begins to return to normal. Soon after the family begins to return to normal, Lark is released
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The commander came close and rubbed it between his fingers before letting it fall back against Chronicler’s chest. “Keep it then. I’m not one to come between a man and his religion,” he said, then emptied the purse into one hand, making a pleasantly surprised noise as he prodded through the coins with his finger. “Scribing pays better than I thought,” he said as he began to count out shares to his men.
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