Novel Yancy

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Preface





This story is about a man that came from a family of Cherokee Indians and a father who was a white Kentucky sheriff. His family was killed in a fire except for him and an younger brother. The two were separated as Yancy heals in the hospital. While in the hospital he meets nurses and staff who direct him in a direction that was not the path of self pity. His Uncle Majag was an inspiration to him before the death of his family when he visited with his mother's tribe to play with the Indian children. The uncle took Yancy in as his own child to raise for his fallen sister.





When the young boy grew up he went into working as a lawman. He is not long as an officer or sheriff when he killed a young man for robbery. He found that the man had a young child. Yancy all ways found a way to take care of the widow and her son.





By the time he was fifty two, he was a criminal investigator . He would be called up on to salve cases that seemed not to have any evidence or leads. His tract record for salving the difficult cases were 98 percent. This was nothing for him. His great ambition was to find the killers of his parents and sister.





Then when he finally found the two men responsible for the massacre of his family, he let go of the anger. One was buried in a grave at the end of town, and the other was in a home for the Mentally Insane. He was able to let go, and retire as the sheriff. He was reunited with his brother at his death bead. When he left the world, he left the turtle to his home to his brother. He left his money and the clay turtle to the young man who lost his father so long ago by a bullet of Yancy's gun.





I think that I will create a touching scene of Yancy falling by the father's side that he had shot. I want to create a conversation where the man is stealing to feed his wife and small child. The father asks Yancy to care for the family and to keep the circumstance of his death a secret.





Characters


Yancy had a sister and a brother. They are children of an Indian woman and white law man. Yancy is the oldest. Being the oldest child installed a strong sence of responsibility. This responsibility created a high need to guide or control the younger children. This followed into his adulthood. He always found a way to keep a control of any situation.





Yancy's mother is an Indian woman that was given to Yancy's father as a reward for saving his life. Yancy was treasured by the Cherokee tribe because of being her first born. He was really the center that the of Rising Sun's eye.





His father and mother created a family that contained both white-man's and Cherokee's customs.





Majag loved to tell the children stories about his tribe in old days. He loved to play with the children though he was a young man. He kept a happy face that was unusual for a Cherokee brave to have.





George Lancer was Yancy's Father. He was a respected white that was judged for having an Indian wife.





George and his wife Cheona were killed along with Yancy's younger sister in a fire.





Yancy and his younger brother were seperated from each other when they were in the hospital recovering from their wonds.





Yancy was still in the hospital when his brother left with a mixed couple to the reservation. They made his brother their own son.





Yancy was badly burned. His pain and his scares could have lead him in a bad direction, but he met a nurse Sara.





Sara was an older nurse. Her grandmother was an Indian, and she passed a clay turtle to Yance that her grandmother had given her. The two became close friends, and the shared (family) relationship turned Yancy into a stronger and more excepting young man.





Greg was twenty when Yancy saw him running from the back of the old ladies house carring a bag. She was standing on the back porch screaming that the man stole from her. Yancy shot the gun. He brought Timothy down.





Greg asks Yancy to keep the secret from his five year old son of how he got shot. Then he died.





When Yancy looked into the bag, there were three cans of beans, two biskets, and a pie. Nothing else was in that bag no matter how much he look. He held Greg's head in his lap and cried. He realized that Timothy stole to eat.





Six months after the shooting, Yancy visits Sammy ( Greg's son). He had sent money every month, but he had never visited the family. He could not think of seeing the eyes of the family who Greg was trying to feed when he died.





Sammy believed that his dad died in a misfire when someone was trying to shoot a thief





The theme of this novel will be about Surviving adversities. Yancy lives through being treated badly because of his race. He looses his family and home in a fire. He has to come to terms with the scars and pain from being in the fire. He misses his brother. He has to find a way to deal with vengeful thoughts. He shoots a man, and cares for the man's family out of guilt. Then he has to learn to let go of a revengeful heart.





Chapter One


It was hard for Jud Cole to work the scene. George had shown Deputy Cole the ropes and become his partner. He found the fire chief.





“Chief Johnson,” Jud called to the fireman as he ran to the inside of the house where the George and Cheona's room had been.





“Jud, are you all right?” Chief Johnson reached out his hand to shake the deputy's hand.





“I won't be until we can find those responsible for this hellish act.” Jud pulls away. He felt that if he were touched any longer he would break down into tears from the loss of his best friend and partner.





“The living room window was open for a nice breeze, I am guessing.” The two men walk back to the burned living room. The walls were black with soot, funiture was in piles of ash on the scorched floor, and the wall around where the window used to be was burned down.





Chief stirred the ash where the window had been, and pointed out a whiskey bottle broken into tiny pieces. There as a burned pattern of a cloth. “This is ….”





“I know all too well what this is.” Jud looked down at the broken glass. “ This was nothing but a homemade fire bomb. George and I have investigated so many burnings from these kinds of fire starters.”





“Yes, well this one is a little different.” Chief Johnson replied. “See where the pattern is up this piece of wood?”





“Yes?”





“This means that the bottle was standing when the fire started.” He continues. “From what I can see, whoever did this was sure that they would not be seen. It looks as though the arson walks up on the porch quietly. He puts his hand through the window and sits the flaming bottle by the living room curtains. He had to be some one that knew the family well.”





“We arrested man last week, and he had a son that is know to play with fire.” Jud thought for a moment. “I just have a feeling about this one. Let me know what you find.”





“I will.” Chief replied as he watched Jud walk away.





“Jud,”  Majag shooke Jud' s hand.





“Hello, Majag, how are the boys?” Jud asked feeling helpless for not being able to bring any news.


“Biziil, will be getting out soon. I have to stay here with Yancy. The doctors aren't sure that he will make it. He is in bad shape.” This was the first time that Jud has seen tears in this big Indian's eyes.





“I promise that I will find who killed them, Majag.” He looked into the room at Yancy's bed. “I will find them for George.”





“I know you will, Jud.” Majag said.





“If you need anything, let me know. I will see that there is someone to take care of anything.”





“Thank you,”

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