Chapter 27The next day was Saturday, so by the time we arrived in Yanube City, the town was crawling with farm families from as far away as sixty miles in all directions. We ran into the Killpennys at Brown’s Emporium where Ma and Pa stopped to thank Caleb for trying to help with Major Irons. Our neighbors were shocked to learn of Matthew’s plight. Min’s eyes centered on me. Was she mentally writing Matthew off as a lost cause? She must have remembered the brief intimacies I’d failed to follow up because she asked after Alexander.
We backtracked to the fort and wrangled permission to see Matthew. My first look at him this morning left me with my chin hanging. He was wild-eyed and edgy. If this was his state after only two days in the jailhouse, I feared for him on the coming trip. Maybe h
