Robert Beddoe

Courage on the Brazos Robert Beddoe

Anna awoke slowly, she lay staring upward into the gray light that flooded in from above, trying to remember where she was. "Chuy." He was still asleep. Anna lay there silently while the gray light whitened the summit. She sat upright, waiting for Chuy to wake up. In a minute she spotted something protruding out of the dry silt in a corner. she leaned over and raked her fingers through the silt and uncovered a turquoise and silver bracelet. She reached over and shook Chuy gently. "What! what?" he said groggily. "Chuy, wake up. Look what I found!" In her excitement to show him the bracelet, the lapels of her blouse fell apart exposing her full, pert roundness. Chuy stared in surprise, "Uh!" She stopped suddenly, her eyes smiling at him. "Oh, did you just now discover that I'm a woman?" "Yes! I mean, no! er, I mean" Anna's effect on him was wholly extraordinary. There was her beauty, her innocence, which could not fail to attract his maturity. It was as though she, herself, were unreal; as though every moment he spent with her was part of some wonderful dream. Yet, "Could she really like mea half-breed," he thought to himself.