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Grandma Catherine picked up her
knitting, while John and Grandpa Samuel had the last two slices of the maple
cake. Martha could not hold back any longer.
“Grandma Catherine,” she said. “I
need to know something.”
“Yes, child,” she said. “What ‘tis it?”
Martha had the feeling that
Grandma Catherine knew what she was going to ask. This question had burned in
her soul for many years, and she was determined to get an answer.
“Why did my father reject you–his
own parents?” Now she had said it. She waited for the answer with an aching
heart. “He all but rejected me and his own grandchildren, too. I need to know
what made him do this.”
Grandma put her knitting down,
and looked in Samuel’s direction.
“No,” Samuel said. His voice was
firm.
“Grandpa, I need to know,” Martha
said.
John sat quietly, spellbound by
the suspense.
“Samuel, thou must tell her,”
Grandma Catherine said. “If thou don’t, I will.”
“No,” he said again, this time
with a touch of anger. “We will not speak of sin in this house.”
“Samuel, canst thou not see the
hurt in this child’s heart? She has suffered many years because of it, and she
needs to know.”
“Grandpa Samuel,” Martha said. “I
love you, and respect you. Nothing will ever change that. But I will not leave
here until you tell me what happened between you and my father. I need to know.”
Samuel looked at his wife of
nearly sixty years. “Tell her, Samuel,” was all Catherine would say. Samuel got
up and walked to the fireplace. He banked the coals, then
returned to his chair.
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About the Book
Martha comes back to the city of
her birth searching for answers to very troubling questions. She doesn’t always like what she discovers,
but she learns more about herself and her family.
Martha kept her promise to bring
a houseful of children to meet their grandparents. And, children will be children, causing such
a commotion in the Montgomery and Campbell households. Their antics and mischief lighten up the
stern upper crust mansions on market street and
About the Author
Ruby Hopper grew up in the
northwest Arkansas Ozarks. Born in 1950, the youngest of four in a minister's
family, she loved life on the family dairy farm. After graduating from high
school, she married Alfred Hopper, and they settled in Hollister, Missouri,
where they still reside.
In 1983, Ruby answered the call
to enter the ministry, and was ordained in 1986. She graduated from Berean University (now Global University) in 1989. Her
publishing credits include two poems published by the National Library of
Poetry. In 1994, her poem Progress
appeared in the National Library of Poetry's Echo's of Yesterday anthology, and received the Editor's Choice
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry. The poem was used at a local Earth
Day celebration in 1995. A second poem The
Face of God appeared in the winter '95 anthology The Best Poems of 1995.
Ruby's community service work has
been recognized by inclusion in the American Biographical Institute’s Two Thousand Notable American Women, 1995,
The World's Who's Who of Women, 1996, and Marquis Who's Who in 1996.
Ruby is currently residing in
Hollister, Mo., where she is working on another book in The Road of Courage series. In her spare time, Ruby enjoys music,
reading a good book, travel, history, baseball, amateur radio, and all church
activities. Ruby has become a student of Oregon Trail history, having visited
many historic sites from Missouri to Oregon.