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When Jessy eed from the caretaker’s quarters, Laredo stood a short distance aatching Jake gallop his iinary horse in a wide circle His attention shifted to her as she approached him

“Everything okay in there, too?”

She answered with an absent nod “I’d forgotten the house had three bedrooht be able to use Wolf Meadow as an outcamp Our manpower is spread a little thin in this sector Usually it’s not been much of a problem unless we have a hard winter”

“That wouldroad in,” Laredo reminded her

“One of the old ranch roads used to come within three-quarters of a mile of old windmill eleven Chase blocked it off and tore out the culvert when Tara gained title to Wolf Meadow He wanted to lance in the direction of the old road “It will take soain, but it wouldn’t be as costly as putting in a whole new road”

“It looks like you’ve come up with…at least a partial solution for this place,” Laredo said

Just as Jessy opened her mouth to reply, there came a shouted “Whoa!” from Jake Both turned to look Laredo s off his wide circle into sorass

“Looks like Jake has hilances with Jessy

As always, Jessy used the opportunity to teach her grandson “Let your horse run a bit,” she called “Don’t pull back on the reins right away He’ll just fight you Make hio in a circle instead That will slow him down”

She watched in approval while Jake followed her instructions and brought his iinary mount under control and started back toward the to his left

Jake pointed to it “What’s that little pen for, Grandma?”

There, half hidden by the tall grasses and weeds, were a series of fence posts that boxed in an area roughly ten feet square Jessy stared at it for an unco second before she realized what it was

“That’s a cemetery plot, Jake,” she told him

“You ot down by the river where Grandpa’s…buried?” He frowned his uncertainty of the word’s

“Just like that,” Jessy confirlected, too,” she added in an undertone to Laredo, then walked over for a closer look, joined by both Laredo and Jake