The orchard at Cuckoo Nest was filled with shifting patterns of dappled sunlight, as the late morning sun shone through breeze-blown leaves. Beyond the fruit trees, Sy"s sisters were busy picking strawberries for the shop in the local town. Royston and Farley were fixing the fences around the paddocks, where a new growth of bright grass had begun to carpet them once more.
In the stackyard Bennett and a young gypsy youth worked on the tractor, which had at last been coaxed into life, while Kingsley and Angie flirted with each other as he taught her to ride Prince of Thieves bareback. The stallion considered Luke"s friends to be his friends now, and he behaved respectfully to them all.
Zanda, the Latvian girl, had decided to throw in her lot with the Boswells. She was busy in a pair of Ang
