Chapter 109

Hope Tucker stepped off of the train and made a sweep of the platform. Very few passengers were disembarking here. Most would go on to Dallas or Fort Worth. She had her carry-on bag over her shoulder and watched as the porters pulled out her two large trunks. Even they must've thought she'd overpacked as they groaned beneath their weight, and they had to have seen all kinds of folks come and go.

She thanked them and slipped them a few coins as her father had suggested. Then, she found herself standing in a lonely train station as the locomotive passed away. The engineer blew the horn, and it sounded like the most solemn noise she'd ever heard in her life.