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her a husband. Now what am I going to do?”
    “Find her another,” Harrison suggested. “What else?”
    “But I don’t know who!”
    “It can’t be that hard to choose,” Colin said. “There are plenty of other men in this town wanting to wed.”
    “Yes, I know,” Sadie agreed. “But Amon is … different.”
    “To say the least,” Harrison muttered with a shake of his head. He looked at his wife. “Perhaps too different. Besides, we think he might be planning on leaving Clear Creek, and that’s why he doesn’t want to marry here. He’ll probably choose a wife wherever he settles.”
    “I haven’t heard anything about him leaving,” Belle said. “Uncle Wilfred knows everything that goes on around here – he would’ve told me.”
    “Yes that’s true,” Harrison said and began to pace. “But Amon doesn’t come to town too often, not since the hotel was finished. Most of his woodworking he does at the men’s camp.”
    “That explains it,” Colin said with a happy smile. “He’s not had the chance to come to town and give Wilfred any rumors to spread around!”
    Belle rolled her eyes. “Uncle Wilfred is not that bad.”
    “Yes, he is, though it’s all right,” Sadie assured her. “And then there’s Fanny Fig – if she caught wind of it, it’d be everywhere.”
    “Well, things are as they are,” Harrison said. “And you two will just have to make the best of it, I’m afraid. Oh, but I warn you, Jasper told us that Clinton Moresy is back in town.”
    “Yes! And he’s bathed !” Colin added with a raised eyebrow.
    “Oh dear me,” Sadie said. “He’ll be at the ranch wanting an audience with Nettie, won’t he?”
    “She’s not ready for that,” Belle said. “I know it. Besides, she’s not staying at the Triple-C.”
    “How do you know?” Colin asked. “The part about her not being ready?”
    “A woman can tell these things. She’s very frightened, Colin, and very hurt.”
    “Whatever for?” he asked.
    “Her father is Thackary Holmes,” Harrison pointed out. “You have to ask?”
    “Oh, quite. Does she want to marry at all, then?”
    “She does – that’s why Duncan sent her here,” Sadie said. “So we’ll see the job done. But Amon really was the best choice. Of course we wouldn’t expect her to marry him right away – we’d want them to court, naturally. Amon has a gentleness that I thought would suit Nettie. He’d be patient with her.”
    “Yes,” Belle agreed. “With what she’s been through, she needs that.”
    “Then you’ll definitely want to keep Clinton away from her,” Colin told them.
    “Belle and I will leave that to you two,” Sadie said with a smile.
    “Us?!” Harrison exclaimed. “How are we supposed to keep him away from her?”
    “Let alone keep all the other men in town away?” Colin added. “Other than whomever you choose.”
    “I’m sure the two of you will think of something,” Sadie assured them.
    “Well, we can’t very well watch him day in and day out, dear wife,” Harrison griped.
    “I’m afraid he’s right,” Colin said. “We do have a ranch to run, remember?”
    “Maybe if you put Clinton to work for you, you’d keep a better eye on him,” Belle suggested.
    “Not a chance,” Harrison said firmly. “Clinton Moresy is no ranch hand.”
    “All right, but I can guarantee you he’s going to show up,” Sadie said just as firmly.
    Colin groaned and looked at his brother. “She’s right, you know. Clinton will be beating the door down the first chance he gets.”
    “Either that or he’ll be at the hotel doing the same thing,” Belle said. “And I don’t think her brother will take kindly to that.”
    “Well, this is a fine mess,” Colin said with a sarcastic smile. “Any way we can let dear Cousin Newton handle things?”
    “We don’t know him well enough,” Harrison argued. “He might shoot Clinton.”
    “He’ll do nothing of the kind,” Colin stated. “Newton Whitman may be the son