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and telling Sam everything she knew, Cassie was quiet and let her thoughts wander back to Sam and the instant attraction she had to him.   Did he feel it too?   Or was it all in her head?   Perhaps she was so lonely she was only seeing what she wanted to see.
    As they pulled into the yard, one of the ranch hands came up and held the horse steady while everyone got down, then he took the buggy with Sam’s horse, Socks, still tied to the back, to the barn.
    “Come on in.   I’ll show you to your room.”   She looked down at her children.   “You two go to the kitchen and see if Bridget has any cookies.   I bet Sarah wants to tell her all about baby Conner and the new kittens you saw.”   They ran off chattering with excitement.   Arguing who was going to tell Bridget first.
    Cassie laughed.   “Let’s get you settled.   All the bedrooms are upstairs.   There are two bedrooms on either side of the hall and the master at the end.   This first room on the right is Bridget’s, across the hall is RJ, next to him is the nursery and Sarah.   The guest room is the last door on the right.”   Cassie opened the door and walked through.   There was a double sized iron bed, a tall boy dresser and a commode with pitcher and basin.   A chamber pot was tucked behind a screen in the corner with a wardrobe in the corner across from that.   “This is the largest of the bedrooms except the master.   None of it is as grand as Duncan and Catherine’s place.   Michael and I were going to expand and remodel but we never seems to get around to it.   I wanted to tear the whole thing down and start over.   I hate this house.   I grew up here and there are not happy memories for me here.”
    “I’m honored to be sleeping in your bed.”
    Cassie’s entire face burned.   She looked up at Sam and his green eyes were dancing with mishief .  
    “Sorry.   I couldn’t resist.”
    “A good sense of humor , too.   You’re going to take some getting used to, Sam Colter.”   Then ignoring her embarrassment, she was back to business.   “The outhouse is in back.   Breakfast is at 5:30, dinner at noon and supper at five.   The kitchen is always open and if you take the last cup of coffee you better make a new pot.   Do you have any questions right now?”
      “Dozens.   First you best introduce me to your ranch hands.”
    “I’ll do that at dinner which,” she looked out the window at the shadows left by the ever rising sun.   “I better get started.   If you want, you can go look around and get a feel for the operation.   I’m sorry I can’t show you around, but if I don’t get dinner ready I’ll have a riot on my hands.   Sunday dinner is always fried chicken, just so you know.    Week day dinners are sandwiches and usually a stew or chili to go with it.?”
    “No problem.   I’d like the chance to look around on my own anyway.   Other than Duncan’s I’ve never seen a horse ranch.”
    “I think you’ll find it interesting.”   Cassie left him to unpack and settle in.
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    Sam walked around the ranch.   There were the typical out buildings he expected to find, barn, bunkhouse, ice house, pump house in the yard outside the kitchen, which was a surprise.   Most pumps he’d seen didn’t have a building around them.   He supposed it was to protect it in the winter from the cold and snow.   Then out in back of the barn the new improvements began.  
    The stable was a large rectangular building.   From the outside there was a double door on each of the north and south ends.   The east and west sides had eight single doors.   Each one opened on to a paddock for the individual horse.
    On the inside were eight stalls on either side of a long wide aisle.   On the north end there was a large stall full of straw for padding the other stalls.   Opposite that was the tack room and an office.
    In each of the stalls was a thoroughbred.   A stallion, filly or mare.   The most beautiful