Casa de Perseguição.
Nick met her gaze from the quarterdeck and gave her a slow nod.
They were bringing back to England another connection to her father, however tenuous. Tears suddenly blurring her vision, she smiled at Nick and returned to work.
The second wagon emptied and sent on its way, they set about the delicate work of loading the horses into the center hold. Zach oversaw getting the slings under Tesoro’s belly and around his chest and rump just right and connected to the line above, and applied a blindfold so the horse would be less likely to panic. Harriet joined Nick in the hold, to help release and calm the stallion. She was prepared with a pocketful of carrots.
Zach joined them in the hold as soon as his black stallion had been prepped and hoisted up.
The narrow stalls w
