Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

I put my coat on over my pyjamas and waited for Nancy. en I opened the front door and we went outside and walked into the yard with the horses. ey all looked up at us. Two of them went back to pulling up grass. One of the other horses snorted and moved back a few steps, and then it too went back to pulling up grass and chewing, head down. I rubbed the forehead of one horse and patted its shoulder. It kept chewing. Nancy put out her hand and began stroking the mane of another horse. ‘Horsey, where’d you come from?’ she said. ‘Where do you live and why are you out tonight, Horsey?’ she said and kept stroking the horse’s mane. e horse looked at her and blew through its lips and dropped its head again. She patted its shoulder. ‘I guess I’d better call the sheri ,’ I said. ‘Not yet,’ she said. ‘Not for a while yet. We’ll never see anything like this again. We’ll never, never have horses in our front yard again. Wait a while yet, Dan.’ A little later, Nancy was still out there moving from one horse to another, patting their shoulders and stroking their manes, when one of the horses moved from the yard into the driveway and walked around the car and down the driveway toward the road, and I knew I had to call. In a little while the two sheri ’s cars showed up with their red lights ashing in the fog and a few minutes later a fellow with a sheepskin coat driving a pick-up with a horse trailer behind it. Now the horses shied and tried to get away and the man with the horse trailer swore and tried to get a rope around the neck of one horse. ‘Don’t hurt it!’ Nancy said. We went back in the house and stood behind the window and watched the deputies and the rancher work on getting the horses rounded up. ‘I’m going to make some co ee,’ I said. ‘Would you like some co ee. Nancy?’ ‘I’ll tell you what I’d like,’ she said. ‘I feel high, Dan. I feel like I’m loaded. I feel like, I don’t know, but I like the way I’m feeling. You put on some co ee and I’ll nd us some music to listen to on the radio and then you can build up the re again. I’m too excited to sleep.’ So we sat in front of the re and drank co ee and listened to an all-night radio station from Eureka and talked about the horses and then talked about Richard, and Nancy’s mother. We danced. We didn’t talk about the present situation at all. e fog hung outside the window and we talked and were kind with one another. Toward daylight I turned o the radio and we went to bed and made love. e next a ernoon, a er her arrangements were made and her suitcases packed, I drove her to the little airport where she would catch a ight to Portland and then transfer to another airline that would put her in Pasco late that night. ‘Tell your mother I said hello. Give Richard a hug for me and tell him I miss him,’ I said. ‘Tell him I send love.’ ‘He loves you too,’ she said. ‘You know that. In any case, you’ll see him in the fall, I’m sure.’ I nodded. ‘Goodbye,’ she said and reached for me. We held each other. ‘I’m glad for last night,’ she said. ‘ ose horses. Our talk. Everything. It helps. We won’t forget that,’ she said. She began to cry. ‘Write me, will you?’ I said. ‘I didn’t think it would happen to us,’ I said. ‘All those years. I never thought so for a minute. Not us.’ ‘I’ll write,’ she said. ‘Some big letters. e biggest you’ve ever seen since I used to send you letters in high school.’ ‘I’ll be looking for them,’ I said. en she looked at me again and touched my face. She turned and moved across the tarmac toward the plane. Go, dearest one, and God be with you. She boarded the plane and I stayed around until its jet engines started and, in a minute, the plane began to taxi down the runway. It li ed o over Humboldt Bay and soon became a speck on the horizon. horse trailer: Pferdeanhänger to shy: scheuen tarmac: Rollbahn to taxi down: rollen über runway: (Flughafen-)Piste speck: Fleck 137 1 Compact unit 1: Stories stories tell Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv