Chapter 6

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While Sunday dinner was being prepared, Sable was in the parlor with her mother, arguing. Finally, she angrily put her hands on her hips, and shouted, “How can you ask me to do this, Mama? I went along with this scheme to please you because you promised that we would cheat just this one cowboy, but now…Mama, what you’re asking me to do is against the law.”

“But Sable, you must, dear. If you don’t, we’ll have to sell the house. What will we do then?”

“If we have to cheat to keep the house, then I don’t want it!”

“Brave words as long as you have a warm bed to sleep in and food on the table. But, Sable, if we don’t get that money, we’ll lose everything.”

“Then figure out something else.”