She turned on the bright latern and started reading her grandfather's paperwork and noticed the jewerly box had a hidden compartment and inside she found two hundred dollars plus a deed to a gold mine out west in Nevada. She decided that is where she was heading and was on her way the next morning. She stayed off the roads as much as possible not to be seen and made her way west. The next night she stayed at a rest stop and grabbed a bottle of water, a can of bean soup plus a bag of chips. She kept reading the deed to her grandfather's mine and noticed it was stamped in Nevada City She knew that office would know if it still belonged to her grandfather or whoever had the deed which was in her possesion by. She knew her foster parents hadn't found it or they would have had their lawyer swindled it for them.
She now was in Kansas. She hated not having any real family. Her mother took her away from her father and his parents when she was two and then when she couldn't get them to shovel out any more money to be able to talk with her just a few minutes over the phone she left her and the only thing she had was her grandfather's old box. She had rummaged through it and didn't find anything valuable just some silly genology papers and a musicbox that the music didn't play anymore. and left her and the box at a bus station in Missouri. She was awarded a guardian of the state and that was now what she was running away from.
She was hoping when she got to Nevada her family would be there to greet her andeven protet her. She knew sometimes she did act up but she felt that was because of the way she had been treated by the adults in her life and not because she was a bad seed like the caseworker and all of her foster parents accused her of being. She thought if I had gotten to stay with my first foster grandparent she would have turned out a lot better but when Mr. Brush died the court said Mrs. Brush couldn't be a foster grandparent any more and that is when her troubles started and now she was running away
She got to Dodge City, Kansas when she was stopped by a Kansas State Patrol officer. He asked her if he knew her. She told the truth no I don't think we have ever met. I'm new to Dodge City and I just live down the road aways. He asked her if she was the one people had been calling in about riding real close to the railroad tracks to where she could get hurt. She stated no it wasn't me. I was out here riding my bike and thought I saw my grandfather's truck so I turned onto the road by the track and it wasn't him. He let her go but the last thing he said I know I saw you somewhere if not in person then a picture of you. Audrey knew it would be just a matter of time before he realized who she was and there had been a truck and trailer back there. The man was picking up old railroad rails along with other old metal so she watched as the state trooper left and she went back there and put her bike in the trailer and hid in a corner ot the trailer when the man came with another pile of metal and put on top of the bike and got in and left the area. She had seen a Nevada license plate on the truck so she knew he must be going the right way.