” Jackie didn’t answer. Then she sighed. ”If Rachel were dead she would in some sense be safe, safe to be remembered and loved. I whimpered.
Twenty-nine of our Dakota kinsmen were hanged for their part in the uprising, though not all of those who were hanged had taken part. Pavel stopped to ask what I was doing and since he’d been in the Special Police too, I invited him to come in as a partner. That’s all. If she’d just had that missing sense, it would have been so obvious right away.