Loves moves in mysterious ways

Chapter 19

I found in one of the hills farms, and there is no way we're going to be able to get her into a veterinary clinic in time.

Good Luckily they'd got this Pickups truck Ford, in for the service in the garage in Bavaria, and as it was an emergency they gave it to me .

Again still staring James's while talking,then suddenly I got again normal heard him.

But what should I do? I think I can't help, Kirstin protested again.

Sorry I don't have any experience or any medical training with it.

I don't want you for that. James frowned as though in an indictment of her stupidity.

I just want you to help me to accompanied, beacuse I need someone cann help me to do this.

Please! I need your help.

I'd ask your parents permission, if that so!

My mum and dad aren't here.

they are gone and visited to see some friends.

She wanted to protest that James had no right to drag on her into helping him.

Like this,but her heart rapidly fast, and saying go and help him.

Isolated from all the protection of a modern Labour and medication and medical, in her remote home.

And somehow she found herself up to and open the doors his car into beside the driver seat,

and holding her breath as James put it into gear and the heavy four-wheel and drive inched slowly through the deepening snow.

It was a hair-raising journey to the farm about eight kilometres away from her parents home.

But much higher in the hills.

And consequently even more exposed to the forecity of the blizzard.

Three Times the pickups ford got stuck and both Kirstin and James had to get out and use the spades and grit he had packed in the back to get it moving again.

Each time,as she wipe the freezing snow from her stinging face, Kirstin wondered what on earth she had let herself in for.

It seemed to take hours to reach the farm, and on the third occasion they became stuck she couldn't help asking James uncertainly, Hope she be all right till now.

The cause a little bit dangerous but I hope......

Moment she went to be imposible for to bring her down.

I am not pretty sure she get into labour but maybe beacuse the weather she find difficulty,or her baby's wasn't due for another three weeks.

so I think she wasn't prepared for this ones early labour.

Although he sounded calm,Kirstin could sense that James was concerned and she shivered on a surge of sympathy and apprehension for the pregnant and wounded animal.

Could posible bring immediately into the clinic?

she suggested either.

But James, shook his head before she could finish her sentence.

Nowhere for it to land.The animal on a fairly steep hillside.

Look i think you can see the lights from it up ahead.

By straining her eyes Kirstin could just about make out faint yellow gleam ahead of them.

And staring into the snow.

Made her eyes ache,and she marvelled at James's skill and stamina in managing to drive them this far.

She could not hardly believe it when they finally came rolled to a halt in the farmyard.

Then jumped immediately into the animal we're James left.

Kirstin couldn't almost feel for herself the spasms of pain that contorted the animal's body as she bent over.

It was several seconds before she could say anything.

As James spoke he was looking at his watch timing the constractions, no doubt, Kirstin though nervously.

She had never had an awful lot to do that babies, and had certainly never been there on the spot,so to speak, when once was born.

Can you cope down here? James asked Kirstin mellow tone, smiling reassuringly at the two small faces turned up to his with varying degrees of appreciation.

Oh! the mother is moving I think so.Shouldn't I do give some of water to drink?

Kristin suggested tractedly.

James laughed No....no.....It seemed a long, long time since she had heard him laughing naturally,and she could feel her own heart lifting slightly in response as she remembered earlier,more innocent days when she had been content with nothing more than his friendship.

Keeping take care babies occupied wasn't too hard task.

They were all obviously well behaved, and the fact that she was a stranger further inhibited them.

They stayed at the farmhouse until the owner returned home.

The blizzard had stopped, and the wind was dying down.

Mr, Silva thanked them with great fullness in his eyes for what they had done.

It was dark by the time they left,the snow freezing already.Kristin shuddered,dreading the hazardous returned experienced.

It took them almost an hour,crawling over the hard-packed frozen snow,and when eventually the turning to the lane came in sight, she tensed as she looked in vain for a spiral of smoke from the sitting room fire chimney.

Sensing her tension, James looked across at her.

What's happened?

I think the sitting room fire is gone out.His frown deepened. If it has the house will be like an icebox,these stone houses always are.

We do have a central heating, you know Kirstin pointed out as he stop the Land Rover in front of the house.

She was sliding out of her seat as she spoke, but somehow he seemed to have anticipated her, and he was there to take take the back door key from her frozen fingers and unlock the door for her.

She saw James was aquatting down in front of the boiler,and realised that he was looking for the pilot light.

You'd better come back to me, he told her brusquely as he stood up.

If I leave you her you'll freeze.

If he'd put into words how little he wanted her company, he couldn't have made it plainer and before she could stop herself Kirstin heard herself saying nastily, Won't Jessa have something to say about that?

His eyes went cold.She's forgotten how dis-approving and quelling he could be when he looked down his nose like that.

What could she have to say? he asked coldly.

You're the daughter of some old friends, whom I can hardly leave to spend the night in a freezing cold house when the temperatures already way down below freezing and still dropping, when my home is less than half a mile away.

Maybe your central heating isn't working either, Kirstin suggested childishly.

What had she been hoping? That he would deny that Jessa had any right to question his actions?

Very likely he agreed coolly.Too cooly for Kirstin's liking. However, unlike you, I took the precaution of making sure that all my fires were well banked down before I came out.