#222 The Heifer- Melissa Hardy
Aina and Uwe were teenage sweethearts in Finland when Uwe
went off to make something of himself in
America. America was “that great hole in the world which was sucking up
all the young men.”
They very much wanted to get married, but her father would
only allow it when he could prove that he owned his own farm and could send
enough money to pay for her passage across the Atlantic. It took him four
years, but after a few successful enterprises, he fulfilled his side of the
bargain. Father said no deal, but relented after Aina went on a two-month
hunger strike.
Aina got what she wanted, and Uwe never waivered from who he
was. Which makes it all that surprising that within a few months of being married,
Aina turns on her new husband.
“Olga was a companion to Aina, and once she came to the
farm, Aina, who had been so glum and sour the whole winter long, seemed to Uwe
almost happy. What he didn’t know was that his little wife soothed herself to
sleep at night thinking up ingenious ways to murder him in his sleep.”
Seeking her chance for escape, she murders Uwe and returns to
Finland where her Father waited with open arms and a I-told-you-so attitude. “I
always knew that Uwe…was no good.”
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