Ruthy's New Texas Lawyer Friend: historical romance

By John Blandly

When Ruthy has to leave school back east and return to Texas after the death of her parents, she meets Harry Fronctil, a young law school graduate who needs to borrow her father's law books. A judge has told Harry he will hold him in contempt of court if he doesn't pass the bar exam. He has ordered him to represent Bat Masterson in a double murder case.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AvantLifeGuard Books
• Release date: Dec 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386784333

John Blandly

John Blandly is an artist, actor, songwriter and filmmaker from upstate New York.

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Ruthy’s New Texas Lawyer Friend | by John Blandly

Ruthy’s New Texas Lawyer Friend

by John Blandly

Copyright © MMXXI  by J. J. Brearton

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1

Ruthy Bartholomew looked in the mirror that hung from the wall in her room at Emma Willard's School for Girls.

She tried on a new blue bonnet that her father had bought her for her eighteenth birthday.

The bonnet was beautiful!

She looked forward to showing it around, but now, like most girls, all she could see were the deficiencies the mirror reflected. Sure, maybe some would say she was pretty, but she felt her eyebrows were too large. While they didn't meet in the middle, they were just too big. And the tiny bosoms-how was she going to get a man with those? She was blessed with a clear complexion, but her cheeks would unaccountably flush at the worst times. She was never able to hide her feelings.

It was difficult getting adjusted to her new school, so far from her home in Texas, but she had met some new friends, and had survived the bitter upstate New York winter in Troy.

At first she was pleased her father was sending her away to school after her mother had been killed by wolves. There was a real sorrow in the house. The tiny one room Texas schoolhouse she'd attended just seemed too small. So, she understood, the selection wasn't great. There were only a few high schools for girls in the late 1890s, and they were mostly in the East.

There was a knock on her door.

Opening it, she saw Missy Wharton holding out a little yellow envelope.

Ruthy took the envelope, and Missy, a freshman, ran away down the hall.

There was a Western Union return

Reviews for Ruthy's New Texas Lawyer Friend

[Rory Macbeth · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Historical romance set in the old west. A law student has to ask 18 year old Ruthy if he can borrow her father's law books. A judge has assigned him to represent Bat Masterson in a double murder case, and said he would hold him in contempt of court if he didn't pass the bar. Recommended.