#PART 3 — THE MAN WHO CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD
“I am not my daughters.” **
For an impossible second, the entire cabin seemed to stop breathing.
The fire broke out.
The snow blew through the open back door.
Rose and Ruth screamed out of their basket.
Mara looked at David Creed as if words had hit her harder than the whip ever.
“What did you say?”
David's revolver was shaking in his hand.
“They are not mine.”
Elias didn't let his rifle down.
“Then whom are they?”
David looked at Mara.
He nodded.
“No. You know it's not true."
“I thought it was true.”
“You were there.”
“I know.”
His face was strained by humility and anger.
“Then don’t sit there and don’t lie to me.”
Outside, Silas Creed's voice echoed through the clearing.
“David! Bring me the map and the kids!”
David has flinched.
Elias has noticed.
That's what he said something.
