
You are Fleda Ringgan, riding into town with your grandfather on a day when a hired agent's neglect catches up with the farm: broken fences, sheep straying into a neighbor's flock, a butternut crop carted off by the Shakers, and a landlord's lawyer who wants more cash than this year's harvest made. A letter from Aunt Lucy in Paris rides home unopened. Before it can be read, two young men arrive unannounced — your cousin Charlton Rossitur and his English friend Guy Carleton, out hunting and asking only for directions.
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