Chapters 9 and 10

When I woke up in the morning it had finally stopped snowing. On the way home we made a plan that if there were any cow-boys father would run back as fast as he could and we would find a place to hide. We stop to eat about two miles from Ridgebury. When we got there people made faces as we traveled.  After traveling for awhile I realized I hadn't seen Father for awhile, I tried to remember the last time I saw Father. After about a mile or two I found multiple horse tracks and I knew exactly what had happened. But I keep thinking about where Father and the Cow-Boys were. I went back to the wagon and started down the road, constantly checking the tracks to see if they were pulling off to the side of the road. Finally I saw the cow-boys on horseback about twenty yards ahead. So I tricked them into thinking the escort was coming.
It felt empty in the tavern without Father. Mother didn't cry except when I first told her. She kept telling herself that he was being held captive, but then she changed her story to he was on a prison ship and that he would come back as soon as the war was over.