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Traveling with her young brother David to the Cameron ranch, Petra tries to manage his questions while hiding their dire circumstances. In Chapter One, the journey becomes a tense test of secrecy, fear, and growing insight as Petra’s careful planning collides with David’s sharp, childlike honesty.","A MAN CALLED CAMERON  \nMargaret Pargeter  \nIt was the perfect solution for them  \nOr so it had seemed to Petra. Left penniless, with a young brother to look after, she decided to look up a distant cousin in Canada and make their home with him.  \nShe had never met Neil Cameron, but she was sure that the lonely old bachelor would be delighted to have some members of the family come to stay with him.  \nSo it was something of a shock when she discovered that Neil was far from elderly and not at all delighted!  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nAfterwards Petra realised if she hadn’t been so busy lecturing David, her young brother, their mishap on the way to the Cameron ranch might never have happened. Fortunately she had slowed down considerably when the bullock hit them, otherwise the outcome might have been worse. David, at least, escaped unhurt, and Petra’s own injuries, when she recovered enough to consider them, couldn’t have been better calculated to help her through an extremely difficult situation had she planned it deliberately.  \nNerves, she supposed, must have been partly responsible for the driving compulsion within her to brief David repeatedly since leaving the airport the day before. For an hour she had managed to control her uncharacteristic fussing until they had left the highway. Having to travel miles over dirt roads had seemed to start her worrying all over again as, in places, the winding track had proved far from easy to negotiate. At one spot, where they had been obliged to ford an unbridged river, her panicky doubts had taken over once more and she had resumed her boring monologue of what David must not do or say.  \nDavid, usually the most patient of boys, had borne with her quietly for some time. Then, when his silence had driven her to ask sharply if he’d heard one word of what she’d been talking about, he had retaliated in his childishly precise tones, that had not yet been affected by their changed circumstances. ‘You don’t have to keep telling me to play dumb, Petra, although I simply couldn’t remember even half of what you’ve told me, anyway!’  \n‘Just so long as you don’t forget we’re merely touring Canada and have a great desire to spend a few days on a real ranch. And that we both would  \nlike to make the acquaintance of our cousin. There might even be more than one of them!’  \n‘And that we mustn’t mention that we live in one basement room of a mouldy old tenement and that funny-looking men sometimes knock on the door so that next day we move on, if we can,’ David mumbled stolidly.  \n‘David!’ Unhappily Petra hesitated. So he had noticed this, along with other things! He was almost twelve and she was reluctantly aware of his growing astuteness. He was conscious of that which she tried to keep from him, just as she had striven so desperately to protect him from the harsher realities of life since their father died. Since their world, as they had known it, had turned upside down.  \nIt had only been a year ago, but seemed more like ten. A nightmare of a year it had been, a black period that had not necessarily finished despite the confident assurance of her planning. No, Petra pondered doubtfully, assurance was never the right word to describe the state of mind that lay behind her recent actions. Desperation might be much nearer the mark!  \n‘I still can’t see,’ said David, when Petra did not continue, ‘why, if we really are Neil Cameron’s relations, we can’t tell him everything right away.’  \n‘No, darling!’ Petra’s clear voice rose, on what she hoped was a note of firmness. ‘You see, we don’t know—that is we can’t be sure how he’ll react.’ She paused with a quick glance at David’s puzzled face. ‘I do intend explaining eventually, so don’t worry, but even you must agree it could be better to get to know him first so we can choose the best way. He might be very easy to approach, but then again he might not. 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