Chapter 5The Minister – or Gene Sherrin, to give him his name - went back to his homestead and took to his bed, where he spent the following few days reading the Holy Book. He was in much physical pain, but the pain in his heart was far worse.
As was only natural, he couldn't keep from thinking about Kate. She was one in a million, in his eyes. As he tried to read the Bible, in search of moral and spiritual guidance and succor, so Kate's image would somehow rise up before him, and prevent him from concentrating on the words.
She had the sweetest smile that made your heart turn over when you looked at her. She never even had to say a word - just one look and he knew very well what she meant. It was all there in her smile, those lovely brown eyes of hers that seemed to contain all the warm
