Evenin'.
TH: you're right...my mistake. Credit goes to marlb42...Different story than yours, and one I also enjoy very much. Both are tales of Ennis moving on with his life, making something of it, and not crawling into a bottle and dying young and embittered.
I called it "Ennis Del Mar: Ranchhand", to distinguish it from the tale which I called "Ennis Del Mar: A Man of God," from the last line in that story. Do you have a different name for yours?
Yours is great tale. A touch of mysticism, brought into the everyday life of Ennis and the others. Ghosts and spirits. Greg simply making himself part of Ennis' life, and Ennis being the better for it. Ennis can miss Jack now. But, has he ever seen Jack in the distance, or close up, like the foreman has seen his father?
Thanks again.