Kasper pulled the cart to a stop by the Blue Diamond Freight loading area. MacDonald"s letter had stated he would be riding with the freight coming in from Missouri.
He had been wounded, and was returning home. Anna wasn"t to worry as it was just a thigh wound, and the doctor had extracted the bullet. They had threatened amputation if the infection didn"t heal. He had managed to keep some of the medication from the Golden One with him and then use it without the doctor"s knowledge. He wasn"t proud of it, but he had used his mind to make the doctor write him a discharge and a pass. Anna"s letter about the hostility of the Texans had driven him homeward. He was stopping at Blue Diamond Freight as the logical place in Arles to lie low if he needed to rest.
Golden OnePeople had stared at Kas
