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.Maybe if she talked to him,this weird spell she was under would be broken. Is it far? Cooper s gaze flicked briefly over to her. We re here. Julia stared. We are? She took a good look around.She couldn t see anything butwhat had been there for the past half hour, trees, grass,trees, grass then more trees. We ve been on Double C land for over ten minutesnow, Cooper said.Sureenough, now that he mentioned it, she could see fencesneatly laid out, running parallel to the road and in the far distance abutting a range ofhills.The fencing enclosed landthat looked exactly like the terrain they d beentraversing for half an hour.Julia couldn tsee the difference between the fenced-in part and thefree range part. Hey, she said suddenly, excitedly pressing her noseagainst the Blazer s window. Horses! She turned to Cooper, romantic visionsdancing through her head. Do youthink they re mustangs? No, Cooper said as he started to slow the vehicle. They re mine. Oh. Julia watched the beautiful animals.There wereat least forty of them,gracefully loping in the field and she felt an odd pangof disappointment. I supposemustangs only exist in the movies. Actually, Cooper said, turning into a wide driveway, they mainly exist inNevada and New Mexico.Here we are. There was so much to see, and all of it foreign to her,that it took Julia a fewmoments to sort her impressions out.The fencing waswhite now and enclosed large, freshly painted buildings and circular areas full ofsand.Julia had read enough DickFrancis novels to recognize stables and paddocks.Orwere they corrals out West?Ten or twelve men were working industriously, someraking the grounds, severalleading horses by what looked like a single long rein, afew on horseback.Theimpression was of a busy, prosperous business.Then Cooper slowed the Blazer and they drove bywhat Julia at first took for ageological formation.Then she looked again.Nogeological formation she knew of wasrectangular and made of wood. What s that? shebreathed and waved her hand atthe& the thing they were driving by. The house. Cooper turned a corner and brought theBlazer to a halt in a carport aslarge as a normal building.The house itself must havebeen designed by NASA.Juliawondered if it was one of those buildings with its ownweather. Who built the house? She tore her eyes away fromthe huge building and lookedat Cooper. God? My great-great-grandfather. He circled the truck andcame to open Julia s door,cupping her elbow until she was safely on the cementfloor of the carport.Julia smiled up at him. Looks like he had to fell aforest to build this thing. His eyes were dark, fathomless. My great-great-granddad believed in elbowroom. No kidding.You can probably see it from outer space,like the Great Wall ofChina. Julia stepped out from under the carport roof for amoment and looked around.Shehad to move her head to take the building all in sinceclose up, it was bigger than herfield of vision. Good thing he built it before the EPAwas around or they would havearrested him for destroying an ecosystem.Why d heneed so much room? Cooper shrugged. When my great-great-grandfatheremigrated from Ireland as aboy, he was dirt poor.He swore he would found adynasty when he made his fortune. He was the twelfth of twelve and he wanted twelvechildren and each child to havetwelve children of his or her own.And he wanted themall to live under the same roof. Why that would be 144 people in your grandfather sgeneration, Julia said, tryingto do the calculations in her head. And by your time,that would be, that would be& Twenty thousand, seven hundred and thirty six. Well& Julia looked at the house consideringly, maybe a few of the distantcousins would have to stay in a hotel.Good thing theyinvented birth control beforethen.So, how many Coopers actually live here? Just me, Cooper said. Just you? She saw him stifle a sigh. Yeah. Not even an odd cousin or two lost somewhere in thehouse? Nope. Cooper shifted his weight from one boot toanother.That must be cowboybody language for embarrassment. My great-great-grandfather had one child, a son, mygreat-grandfather had one child, a son, my grandfatherhad one child, a son, my father Wait, Julia said. Let me guess.One child, a son.You. Bingo. He took her elbow. Let s go [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Maybe if she talked to him,this weird spell she was under would be broken. Is it far? Cooper s gaze flicked briefly over to her. We re here. Julia stared. We are? She took a good look around.She couldn t see anything butwhat had been there for the past half hour, trees, grass,trees, grass then more trees. We ve been on Double C land for over ten minutesnow, Cooper said.Sureenough, now that he mentioned it, she could see fencesneatly laid out, running parallel to the road and in the far distance abutting a range ofhills.The fencing enclosed landthat looked exactly like the terrain they d beentraversing for half an hour.Julia couldn tsee the difference between the fenced-in part and thefree range part. Hey, she said suddenly, excitedly pressing her noseagainst the Blazer s window. Horses! She turned to Cooper, romantic visionsdancing through her head. Do youthink they re mustangs? No, Cooper said as he started to slow the vehicle. They re mine. Oh. Julia watched the beautiful animals.There wereat least forty of them,gracefully loping in the field and she felt an odd pangof disappointment. I supposemustangs only exist in the movies. Actually, Cooper said, turning into a wide driveway, they mainly exist inNevada and New Mexico.Here we are. There was so much to see, and all of it foreign to her,that it took Julia a fewmoments to sort her impressions out.The fencing waswhite now and enclosed large, freshly painted buildings and circular areas full ofsand.Julia had read enough DickFrancis novels to recognize stables and paddocks.Orwere they corrals out West?Ten or twelve men were working industriously, someraking the grounds, severalleading horses by what looked like a single long rein, afew on horseback.Theimpression was of a busy, prosperous business.Then Cooper slowed the Blazer and they drove bywhat Julia at first took for ageological formation.Then she looked again.Nogeological formation she knew of wasrectangular and made of wood. What s that? shebreathed and waved her hand atthe& the thing they were driving by. The house. Cooper turned a corner and brought theBlazer to a halt in a carport aslarge as a normal building.The house itself must havebeen designed by NASA.Juliawondered if it was one of those buildings with its ownweather. Who built the house? She tore her eyes away fromthe huge building and lookedat Cooper. God? My great-great-grandfather. He circled the truck andcame to open Julia s door,cupping her elbow until she was safely on the cementfloor of the carport.Julia smiled up at him. Looks like he had to fell aforest to build this thing. His eyes were dark, fathomless. My great-great-granddad believed in elbowroom. No kidding.You can probably see it from outer space,like the Great Wall ofChina. Julia stepped out from under the carport roof for amoment and looked around.Shehad to move her head to take the building all in sinceclose up, it was bigger than herfield of vision. Good thing he built it before the EPAwas around or they would havearrested him for destroying an ecosystem.Why d heneed so much room? Cooper shrugged. When my great-great-grandfatheremigrated from Ireland as aboy, he was dirt poor.He swore he would found adynasty when he made his fortune. He was the twelfth of twelve and he wanted twelvechildren and each child to havetwelve children of his or her own.And he wanted themall to live under the same roof. Why that would be 144 people in your grandfather sgeneration, Julia said, tryingto do the calculations in her head. And by your time,that would be, that would be& Twenty thousand, seven hundred and thirty six. Well& Julia looked at the house consideringly, maybe a few of the distantcousins would have to stay in a hotel.Good thing theyinvented birth control beforethen.So, how many Coopers actually live here? Just me, Cooper said. Just you? She saw him stifle a sigh. Yeah. Not even an odd cousin or two lost somewhere in thehouse? Nope. Cooper shifted his weight from one boot toanother.That must be cowboybody language for embarrassment. My great-great-grandfather had one child, a son, mygreat-grandfather had one child, a son, my grandfatherhad one child, a son, my father Wait, Julia said. Let me guess.One child, a son.You. Bingo. He took her elbow. Let s go [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]