Seth From Grizzly Flats

By Doreen Milstead

Seth From Grizzly Flats -- A Sheriff finds that he wants companionship and love more than anything else and contacts his aunt back east to get a few ideas from her about the situation. She is happy to oblige, and quickly he finds that his life may change rapidly.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Hart
• Release date: Mar 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463215005

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Seth From Grizzly Flats

by

Doreen Milstead

Copyright 2020 Susan Hart

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter One

Synopsis: Seth From Grizzly Flats -- A Sheriff finds that he wants companionship and love more than anything else and contacts his aunt back east to get a few ideas from her about the situation. She is happy to oblige, and quickly he finds that his life may change rapidly.

Grizzly Flats, California, January 1875

Dear Seth,

How we wish you could have been with us for the Holidays, but never fear, I have included a little something with this letter. Please use it for yourself and know that we miss you and are praying for you everyday.

Your last letter sounded so bleak. What you need is a good woman. Find yourself a nice girl, settle down and have some children. The laughter of little children always cheers me up.

Virginia and I attended Sarah and Peter’s wedding last Saturday. It was beautiful and Reverend Michael performed the ceremony. He says to tell you Hello. We are both so proud of Sarah and how she has been able to turn her life around. Peter is definitely a man of God and has been instrumental in helping her overcome her troubles and shortcomings.

We will continue to pray that God sends the right partner to help you share your life with. I may have never married, but I remember the comfort and happiness I felt when Paul was still alive. Nothing replaces the loneliness like a godly helpmate. Don’t give up hope. She’s out there.

We love you and miss you. Here’s a verse to help you remember the better days are coming –

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Chapter Two

Martha and Virginia

New York City, Early February 1875

Martha, you have another letter from that nephew of yours, Seth.

Well, don’t just stand there in the doorway, bring it in, and close the door. It’s colder today than yesterday, I do believe. Martha Langston placed her knitting in the bag beside her chair and patiently waited for Virginia Stewart to close the front door. She wrapped her sweater around herself and rubbed her hands as the cool winter air invaded the warmth of the sitting room.

I am so ready for spring to arrive. My arm has ached for days now. Virginia handed the day’s mail over to Martha and absently rubbed her left arm. As a child, she had fallen out of the tree in her parents’ front yard and broken her arm just above the elbow. Whenever an impending storm approached, it would ache something fierce. It had been achy for the last two days and Virginia was sure that by morning the walks would be covered up with snow again.

Virginia and Martha had been best friends growing up together in the suburbs of New York City. Currently unmarried and in their late 50’s now, they had lived together as roommates ever since Virginia’s husband had passed away ten years past. They shared the house left to Martha upon her parents’ passing and operated a halfway house for women who needed a little help, a lot of love, and the guidance of a higher power. Martha’s father had been a very successful surgeon and had accumulated quite a bit of wealth while living. As Martha was his only surviving child, his entire estate had been left to her at the time of his death; her mother, and siblings having passed away before her father.

Martha and Virginia had taken it upon themselves to use that wealth for the betterment of society. Martha had never married, although she had been engaged to a brilliant young man while in her twenties. He had been bitten by the gold bug and headed to California to get rich. Martha had remained in New York City, waiting for him to make something of himself and send for her. Instead of a letter containing railway passage, she had received a telegram notifying her of his untimely demise at the hands of robbers. Martha had truly believed he was her soul mate and had adopted the life of a spinster since receiving news of his death.

Shortly after that, she had been notified of her sister’s death and had become the legal guardian of her nephew, Seth Brownley. At the age of 12, Seth had been devastated by his parents’ deaths, but had adjusted well to city life and the loving care of his aunt and her friends.

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