Proof The Bible Is True

Bang! The door slamming jolted me awake. The sky outside my bedroom window was pitch-black. It wasn’t anywhere near morning. Whatever time it was, my father was awake and furious.

“Those no good…They’re gone!” he said. Then he yelled, “Everybody up!”

I scrambled out of bed and followed my older sister, Geraldine, into the kitchen where my parents were. “The field hands have deserted us!” Dad said. “Snuck off in the middle of the night!”

Why would they do that? I thought sleepily. Then I remembered. The afternoon before I’d been tucked up in the hayloft and heard Dad fight with Allen and Jake by the corral. Dad wanted them to drive his herd of horses up Mount Home in the Uintas, across the wide plateau called the Blue Bench, then back down the other side where our new farm was waiting for us.

“You’re crazy!” Allen had said. “You want us to drive 125 horses up a mountain pass for 20 miles, and another 50 across that God-forsaken Blue Bench all in one day? It’s impossible. You’ve got to truck ’em to your new place!”

“There’s no money for trucking,” Dad said. “You get your gear together. You’re leaving at four o’clock tomorrow morning, so you’d better be ready. It’s the only way to get those horses out of these here hills before it snows.”

During dinner both Allen and Jake were silent. A terrible silence, louder than any angry words.

They sure were dead set against crossing that Blue Bench, I thought now, standing in the dark kitchen in the middle of the night.

“We’ve got to move to our new place today, horses and all,” Dad told me and Geraldine, his voice going gentle. “Your mom can’t drive the truck or those horses. She and I will take your little brothers in the truck with our things.

“Geraldine, you and Sylvia will have to drive the horses up Mount Home and across the Blue Bench. Nobody’s better with horses than you two. You’re better than those field hands, even. Just move west to east. I’ll meet you on the other side.”

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