“Dear Daphne,” he wrote. “I’m in the Montana Territory . . .”He crumpled that page and began again: “Dear Daphne, you will never guess where I am.” Oh, and by the way, I’m already married . . . it was a joke, you see.Gideon took yet another fresh sheet of paper and scrawled, “Dear Daphne, I may not be back in time for the wedding—”He stopped. It went against his grain, lying to Daphne, but how could he tell her the truth? Before their wedding could take place, he’d have to have his marriage to Willow Gallagher annulled. That shouldn’t be too difficult, he reasoned, given that they’d never consummated the union.But still.Resolute, Gideon dipped his pen in the ink bottle and forged on, explaining that railroad business might keep him away from home longer than expected.Even after appropriate pleasantries had been added, the letter to Daphne was very short. It seemed to Gideon that there should be more to say.With a sigh, he signed the missive and set it aside so that the ink could dry.
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