Reno Rendezvous

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Leslie Ford. Reno Rendezvous

Reno. Rendezvous

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by Leslie Ford

I’d been wondering about her, across the shining green corn carpet of Nebraska, wondering if this was another of what people call the tragedies of Reno. Not that she looked particularly tragic, or even unhappy for that matter. She looked moody and disturbed, but on the whole more like a gal who knew what she wanted and was jolly well on her way to get it than like any frail blossom broken by the iron heel of Life. Would Judy Bonner be like this, I wondered? . . . and for the three hundredth time, I suppose, since I’d got it two days before, I took out the cable that was bringing me, Grace Latham, widow—by act of God, not Court—to Reno instead of to Maine to spend the summer with my two boys as originally planned. It was from London, from my brother-in-law. From my husband’s sister Mildred’s husband, to be precise.

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She laughed.

“That’s just for the rodeo. But if it isn’t the rodeo it’s something else. It helps people forget their troubles.”

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