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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1895112" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter Fifty-five, “The Job Offer”, January 7th, 1882:</strong></p><p></p><p>Ruby and Katherine travel one block north to the Palace Saloon and Hotel. They hear piano playing and some off-key singing long before they actually enter the three-story wood and brick building. The place is brightly lit and loud, with cigar smoke floating around the ceiling. The main floor is thirty-by-forty feet and comprised almost entirely of one large room, the far back corner blocked off for the kitchen. A long bar with two bartenders runs the entire west wall with a large wall-sized mirror along it. </p><p></p><p>The room has somewhere between fifty and sixty people in it. One table has a roulette wheel running and two card games are going on. The man Evan Adair who played at Jake’s table the night before is running one card game. The woman who had brought him his water glasses is sitting on his lap, the top of her dress being more off than on. Four other women in bright low-cut dresses are in the room including the one standing on stage and mangling a perfectly good song with her poorly trained voice, although nobody in the room seems to mind. </p><p></p><p>A tall burley man stands near the door. “If you have any guns I’ll take them now,” he says to the women. Ruby pulls up her skirt to her thigh and takes her gun out of it's holster. She hands it over to the man with a smile. "Take good care of that for me." Then he looks at Kate. Ruby laughs. "Does she look like she can shoot a gun?" Ruby takes her hand and leads her into the bar. She pushes a couple of girls away from the bar and her and Kate squeeze in.</p><p></p><p>Kate was suddenly acutely aware of the Derringer in her bodice, but she was glad to keep it. Ruby had been right, this wasn't the kind of place people like Kate went. They wedged their way up to the bar by means of Ruby pushing a couple other women out of the way. </p><p></p><p>"Whiskey!" Kate called quickly. That was all she really wanted here. Considering the woman on the stage no one could be here to enjoy the entertainment. She was about ready to give up on rational thought for the day. There had just been too much. The morning at the cattle rustlers caves seemed weeks ago. </p><p></p><p>The bartender sat down the glass and Kate emptied it. "Again," she ordered. It felt like her life was in a constant state of degeneration. Tom had gotten ill, and everything had fallen apart. He'd recovered and they began to build again. She came here to join him, and everything fell apart again. So she sat in a room in a boarding house for three months drinking herself to sleep at night until she finally pulled herself together. </p><p></p><p>She came to Promise City, met some people, and began to put a life together. In the course of this one day everything was in shambles again. A friend was now lost because her husband had a wandering eye, Jake was likely angry with her, and Ruby..... Ruby was showing a whole new side that seemed just as unnatural as the ecstatic side yesterday. Tomorrow she would pick up the threads and start again. For tonight she just wanted to forget.</p><p></p><p>Ruby drinks her whiskey fast. She was very tense about something, although she wasn’t sure what. She saw Adair at one of the poker tables and decided to say hello. “Kate, stay here, I’ll be right back.” She walks over to him, ignores the half-naked woman on his lap, and reaches out her hand. “Hello Mr. Adair, Ruby West, I think I saw you at the Lone Star last night.” Adair looks up at her and says "Why yes, come here about the job offer?" Ruby answers, "Job offer? No, I didn't know anything about that. I decided that my friend Kate and I would skip work and have some fun tonight. This seemed like a good place for it."</p><p></p><p>Adair laughs and says "If fun is what you want this is the place. Got all the gambling, drink and men here than you could ever asks for. Last night I told your friend Cook to pass on that whenever you got tired of old lady Whipple's misguided morality to come over here and a job would be waiting for you." Katherine overhears the exchange. Old Lady Whipple? Maggie didn't seem that old, late thirties perhaps maybe early forties. Then again, compared to the young ladies in this building that probably was old to Adair.</p><p></p><p>“Well I like all those things, but not necessarily in that order.” Ruby smiles and looks around. It was quite lively here, more her crowd than the Lone Star. She looked back to Kate, who was still drinking at the bar. She turns back to Adair. “And it looks like you like to have fun here too, Mr. Adair.” “So what’s this job offer you’ve got for me? I’m listening.” He replies "With your looks and voice I'd like you to work here full time. You'd make a whole lot more money that you'll ever get at the Lone Star."</p><p></p><p>Kate considered going over there and giving Adair a piece of her mind. The bartender was looking at her, wondering if she wanted another glass. "Just give me the bottle," she said, throwing enough money to cover it on the counter. She grabbed it and the glass and started moving. </p><p></p><p>The singer had thankfully stopped and jumped down off the stage to get a drink. Kate diverted her path from Adair to the piano. "Get off," she said to the barely mediocre man who'd been playing. She filled her glass and set it on the bench after he moved, then set the bottle on top. Kate flexed her fingers, took another slug of whiskey, and launched into a piece from Beethoven's fifth symphony.</p><p></p><p>Ruby’s eyebrow raises at the sound of “more money”. “What would I be doing here, Mr. Adair? Just singing?” </p><p>Right as Ruby says this Kate jumps on the piano and starts playing. Ruby smiles. "I think she might want a job here too, considering Mr. Whipple has a thing for her... and I can vouch, she's very good." Adair says "Yeah, well that's what old Tomcat Whipple is known for. He was carrying on with that other singer for over a year, and right under Maggie's roof.” “That bastard…” Ruby says out loud to herself. She had suspected that with all this Flossie talk but wasn’t totally sure. But why would Maggie still be with him? She was weak Ruby guessed. Men always hurt you if you let them so you shouldn’t let them was Ruby’s philosophy. </p><p></p><p>Adair says, “Okay, your friend isn't as much of a looker as you, but I guess she'll do. You have to tell her to stop playing garbage like this though, we want fun lively tunes around here." Ruby replies, “While I appreciate your offer I’m going to have to think it over, maybe over a drink. It has been a long day and I don’t like to make decisions on a long day… plus there’s Jake to consider...” Ruby’s anger towards him was subsiding, she was starting to feel bad about slapping him. Actually she was starting to feel bad about a lot of things. Guilt was not something that normally crossed Ruby’s mind but now… </p><p></p><p>Ruby walks over to Katherine and sits on the bench next to her. “Kate, Tom Whipple is an ass. He cheated on Maggie with that Flossie woman for over a year! I feel like shooting him! I feel like crying too, poor Maggie. Oh what’s wrong with me!” Ruby felt out of control, normally one of her better traits. Her emotions were overwhelming her. Kate was playing more lively music but Ruby didn't feel like being lively anymore.</p><p></p><p>Several men approached both Kate and Ruby and asked them to dance but both refused, Katherine politely and Ruby with a snap of "Go away, leave us alone." After about half an hour of sitting there Adair approaches and says "I've heard that you've been rude to some of my customers. That's no way for new employees to act.” "Who's an employee?" Kate muttered over her drink. Adair was still talking, but Kate wasn't really listening. He seemed to think they were going to be working here now. Here? She snorted to herself. As is she would ever be caught dead sitting on Adair's lap with her top half off. What was he saying now? </p><p></p><p>“Tell you what Miss West, why don't you sing one of those tunes like you did last night. Show these folks the real you, that there's something worth spending time with. " Ruby answers, “Mr. Adair, I don’t recall telling you that we accepted your offer. But I DO recall telling you I wasn’t working tonight. And even if I was I don’t work for free. So your customers will just have to make due with your current singer, if you can call her that.” Ruby stops and thinks about the last thing he said. Her eyes narrow. “What do you know about the real me anyway?”</p><p></p><p>He replies, “Just what I see and heard last night. But the fact that you've already sized up the Whipples and came here tells me lots about you. And before you decide if you want to work tonight let's discuss terms. I'll give you girls the best deal that you'll find in town. Free room, board and all the drinks you want. And you can keep half of whatever you make upstairs."</p><p></p><p>Any other time Ruby would have laughed. Instead, she looked at Kate’s flushed cheeks and her hand went flying, for the second time this day. She slapped Adair hard across the face and grabbed Kate’s arm. “It’s a damn good thing the guy at the door has my gun Mr. Adair.” </p><p></p><p>"Whatever I?" Kate almost sobered up for a minute. Even as Ruby's hand flashed out Kate threw her drink in his face. With that she starts dragging Kate towards the door. They get to the door and Ruby demands her gun back. The bouncer looks over at his boss and says "Why, so you can shoot at him? You're insane. I'll give your gun to the Marshall, you can pick it up from him." Ruby demands, "Listen he got what he deserved for insulting us, now give me back my damn gun so we can get out of here before I change my mind!" Kate looked at the glass in her hand. "Well that's a damn shame. Now it's empty."</p><p></p><p>Jake had returned to the wagon. The last of the ore was been loaded and the men climbed into the back while Elliott and Lewis climbed up front with Jake. They rode back towards the Cantina and Jake said to Elliott, "Do you have something to give these fine gentlemen for their troubles? If not, I'll handle it." He replied, "We don't have much right now but I figure this ore will be worth quite a bit so we're good for it." </p><p></p><p>They parked the cart behind the Cantina, adjacent to the shed that Grant Keebler lives in. Jake paid each of the seven men for their efforts and also arranged a guard rotation, with one man on alert at the wagon with the prospectors at all time. He also suggested to Elliott and Lewis that they alternate, with one guarding and the other sleeping. He then told Elliott "Meet me over in the Cantina late tonight, after 1:00 or so, we need to talk." </p><p></p><p>Jake headed back upstairs and changes into his poker clothes. Now how to find Ruby and Katherine? So far everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. He smiles and thinks "Well then, they must be at the saloon that I wish they weren't at." He leaves the Cantina and heads directly to the Palace Saloon. Sure enough, they are there, standing in the doorway. Ruby is yelling to a tall burly looking man "….give me back my damn gun so we can get out of here before I change my mind!"</p><p></p><p>When Jake appeared just outside the door as Ruby demanded her gun back. It occurred to Kate that Jake might want a drink. He liked a drink now and then. She suddenly realized that she'd left her bottle on the piano. Pulling her arm loose, she walked very carefully back over and picked it up. Adair was still near the piano, wiping the whiskey off his face with a handkerchief. Katherine considered speaking to him, but words didn't seem to suffice. She huffed at him as she pointed her chin up in the air, deliberately turned her back, and stalked imperiously away with only a couple of stumbles on the way back.</p><p></p><p>Walking up and standing next to the man who appears to be the bouncer Jake nods his head to the ladies and says to the man "You got quite a wildcat here. You're a braver man than me if you hand her a loaded gun while she is this riled up. She sure is pretty though, all worked up like that." </p><p></p><p>Jake leans in against the man and whispers "Tell you what, give me her bullets and hand her the empty gun. She can follow me to get 'em if she wants, and that way she's out of your hair. Could be interesting...If you get my drift." Jake slaps him on the back and gives him a knowing grin. "Maybe I'll even tell you about it next time I'm by." He finishes with a wink. In a normal voice he says to him, "And if I am lucky, I'll buy you a drink to boot!" </p><p>He watches Katherine walk unsteadily back into the saloon and hopes he does not have to go in and rescue her.</p><p></p><p>Ruby is getting increasingly incensed at the situation. “Jake, what do you think you’re doing? I’m handling it! And you’re crazy if you think you’re getting lucky now, the only thing you’ll be getting is another slap!” Ruby pauses. “…Unless you actually can get this brute to give me back my gun before I really get upset…” The man had actually started to reach back to the cabinet with the checked guns until Ruby's comment and he realized that they knew each other. Instead he made a gesture over to the bar. Jake notices one of the bartenders reaching for something beneath the bar, most likely a weapon of some sort. The bouncer says "I'll give the gun to the Marshall. You three just get out of here before somebody gets hurt."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 1895112, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter Fifty-five, “The Job Offer”, January 7th, 1882:[/B] Ruby and Katherine travel one block north to the Palace Saloon and Hotel. They hear piano playing and some off-key singing long before they actually enter the three-story wood and brick building. The place is brightly lit and loud, with cigar smoke floating around the ceiling. The main floor is thirty-by-forty feet and comprised almost entirely of one large room, the far back corner blocked off for the kitchen. A long bar with two bartenders runs the entire west wall with a large wall-sized mirror along it. The room has somewhere between fifty and sixty people in it. One table has a roulette wheel running and two card games are going on. The man Evan Adair who played at Jake’s table the night before is running one card game. The woman who had brought him his water glasses is sitting on his lap, the top of her dress being more off than on. Four other women in bright low-cut dresses are in the room including the one standing on stage and mangling a perfectly good song with her poorly trained voice, although nobody in the room seems to mind. A tall burley man stands near the door. “If you have any guns I’ll take them now,” he says to the women. Ruby pulls up her skirt to her thigh and takes her gun out of it's holster. She hands it over to the man with a smile. "Take good care of that for me." Then he looks at Kate. Ruby laughs. "Does she look like she can shoot a gun?" Ruby takes her hand and leads her into the bar. She pushes a couple of girls away from the bar and her and Kate squeeze in. Kate was suddenly acutely aware of the Derringer in her bodice, but she was glad to keep it. Ruby had been right, this wasn't the kind of place people like Kate went. They wedged their way up to the bar by means of Ruby pushing a couple other women out of the way. "Whiskey!" Kate called quickly. That was all she really wanted here. Considering the woman on the stage no one could be here to enjoy the entertainment. She was about ready to give up on rational thought for the day. There had just been too much. The morning at the cattle rustlers caves seemed weeks ago. The bartender sat down the glass and Kate emptied it. "Again," she ordered. It felt like her life was in a constant state of degeneration. Tom had gotten ill, and everything had fallen apart. He'd recovered and they began to build again. She came here to join him, and everything fell apart again. So she sat in a room in a boarding house for three months drinking herself to sleep at night until she finally pulled herself together. She came to Promise City, met some people, and began to put a life together. In the course of this one day everything was in shambles again. A friend was now lost because her husband had a wandering eye, Jake was likely angry with her, and Ruby..... Ruby was showing a whole new side that seemed just as unnatural as the ecstatic side yesterday. Tomorrow she would pick up the threads and start again. For tonight she just wanted to forget. Ruby drinks her whiskey fast. She was very tense about something, although she wasn’t sure what. She saw Adair at one of the poker tables and decided to say hello. “Kate, stay here, I’ll be right back.” She walks over to him, ignores the half-naked woman on his lap, and reaches out her hand. “Hello Mr. Adair, Ruby West, I think I saw you at the Lone Star last night.” Adair looks up at her and says "Why yes, come here about the job offer?" Ruby answers, "Job offer? No, I didn't know anything about that. I decided that my friend Kate and I would skip work and have some fun tonight. This seemed like a good place for it." Adair laughs and says "If fun is what you want this is the place. Got all the gambling, drink and men here than you could ever asks for. Last night I told your friend Cook to pass on that whenever you got tired of old lady Whipple's misguided morality to come over here and a job would be waiting for you." Katherine overhears the exchange. Old Lady Whipple? Maggie didn't seem that old, late thirties perhaps maybe early forties. Then again, compared to the young ladies in this building that probably was old to Adair. “Well I like all those things, but not necessarily in that order.” Ruby smiles and looks around. It was quite lively here, more her crowd than the Lone Star. She looked back to Kate, who was still drinking at the bar. She turns back to Adair. “And it looks like you like to have fun here too, Mr. Adair.” “So what’s this job offer you’ve got for me? I’m listening.” He replies "With your looks and voice I'd like you to work here full time. You'd make a whole lot more money that you'll ever get at the Lone Star." Kate considered going over there and giving Adair a piece of her mind. The bartender was looking at her, wondering if she wanted another glass. "Just give me the bottle," she said, throwing enough money to cover it on the counter. She grabbed it and the glass and started moving. The singer had thankfully stopped and jumped down off the stage to get a drink. Kate diverted her path from Adair to the piano. "Get off," she said to the barely mediocre man who'd been playing. She filled her glass and set it on the bench after he moved, then set the bottle on top. Kate flexed her fingers, took another slug of whiskey, and launched into a piece from Beethoven's fifth symphony. Ruby’s eyebrow raises at the sound of “more money”. “What would I be doing here, Mr. Adair? Just singing?” Right as Ruby says this Kate jumps on the piano and starts playing. Ruby smiles. "I think she might want a job here too, considering Mr. Whipple has a thing for her... and I can vouch, she's very good." Adair says "Yeah, well that's what old Tomcat Whipple is known for. He was carrying on with that other singer for over a year, and right under Maggie's roof.” “That bastard…” Ruby says out loud to herself. She had suspected that with all this Flossie talk but wasn’t totally sure. But why would Maggie still be with him? She was weak Ruby guessed. Men always hurt you if you let them so you shouldn’t let them was Ruby’s philosophy. Adair says, “Okay, your friend isn't as much of a looker as you, but I guess she'll do. You have to tell her to stop playing garbage like this though, we want fun lively tunes around here." Ruby replies, “While I appreciate your offer I’m going to have to think it over, maybe over a drink. It has been a long day and I don’t like to make decisions on a long day… plus there’s Jake to consider...” Ruby’s anger towards him was subsiding, she was starting to feel bad about slapping him. Actually she was starting to feel bad about a lot of things. Guilt was not something that normally crossed Ruby’s mind but now… Ruby walks over to Katherine and sits on the bench next to her. “Kate, Tom Whipple is an ass. He cheated on Maggie with that Flossie woman for over a year! I feel like shooting him! I feel like crying too, poor Maggie. Oh what’s wrong with me!” Ruby felt out of control, normally one of her better traits. Her emotions were overwhelming her. Kate was playing more lively music but Ruby didn't feel like being lively anymore. Several men approached both Kate and Ruby and asked them to dance but both refused, Katherine politely and Ruby with a snap of "Go away, leave us alone." After about half an hour of sitting there Adair approaches and says "I've heard that you've been rude to some of my customers. That's no way for new employees to act.” "Who's an employee?" Kate muttered over her drink. Adair was still talking, but Kate wasn't really listening. He seemed to think they were going to be working here now. Here? She snorted to herself. As is she would ever be caught dead sitting on Adair's lap with her top half off. What was he saying now? “Tell you what Miss West, why don't you sing one of those tunes like you did last night. Show these folks the real you, that there's something worth spending time with. " Ruby answers, “Mr. Adair, I don’t recall telling you that we accepted your offer. But I DO recall telling you I wasn’t working tonight. And even if I was I don’t work for free. So your customers will just have to make due with your current singer, if you can call her that.” Ruby stops and thinks about the last thing he said. Her eyes narrow. “What do you know about the real me anyway?” He replies, “Just what I see and heard last night. But the fact that you've already sized up the Whipples and came here tells me lots about you. And before you decide if you want to work tonight let's discuss terms. I'll give you girls the best deal that you'll find in town. Free room, board and all the drinks you want. And you can keep half of whatever you make upstairs." Any other time Ruby would have laughed. Instead, she looked at Kate’s flushed cheeks and her hand went flying, for the second time this day. She slapped Adair hard across the face and grabbed Kate’s arm. “It’s a damn good thing the guy at the door has my gun Mr. Adair.” "Whatever I?" Kate almost sobered up for a minute. Even as Ruby's hand flashed out Kate threw her drink in his face. With that she starts dragging Kate towards the door. They get to the door and Ruby demands her gun back. The bouncer looks over at his boss and says "Why, so you can shoot at him? You're insane. I'll give your gun to the Marshall, you can pick it up from him." Ruby demands, "Listen he got what he deserved for insulting us, now give me back my damn gun so we can get out of here before I change my mind!" Kate looked at the glass in her hand. "Well that's a damn shame. Now it's empty." Jake had returned to the wagon. The last of the ore was been loaded and the men climbed into the back while Elliott and Lewis climbed up front with Jake. They rode back towards the Cantina and Jake said to Elliott, "Do you have something to give these fine gentlemen for their troubles? If not, I'll handle it." He replied, "We don't have much right now but I figure this ore will be worth quite a bit so we're good for it." They parked the cart behind the Cantina, adjacent to the shed that Grant Keebler lives in. Jake paid each of the seven men for their efforts and also arranged a guard rotation, with one man on alert at the wagon with the prospectors at all time. He also suggested to Elliott and Lewis that they alternate, with one guarding and the other sleeping. He then told Elliott "Meet me over in the Cantina late tonight, after 1:00 or so, we need to talk." Jake headed back upstairs and changes into his poker clothes. Now how to find Ruby and Katherine? So far everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. He smiles and thinks "Well then, they must be at the saloon that I wish they weren't at." He leaves the Cantina and heads directly to the Palace Saloon. Sure enough, they are there, standing in the doorway. Ruby is yelling to a tall burly looking man "….give me back my damn gun so we can get out of here before I change my mind!" When Jake appeared just outside the door as Ruby demanded her gun back. It occurred to Kate that Jake might want a drink. He liked a drink now and then. She suddenly realized that she'd left her bottle on the piano. Pulling her arm loose, she walked very carefully back over and picked it up. Adair was still near the piano, wiping the whiskey off his face with a handkerchief. Katherine considered speaking to him, but words didn't seem to suffice. She huffed at him as she pointed her chin up in the air, deliberately turned her back, and stalked imperiously away with only a couple of stumbles on the way back. Walking up and standing next to the man who appears to be the bouncer Jake nods his head to the ladies and says to the man "You got quite a wildcat here. You're a braver man than me if you hand her a loaded gun while she is this riled up. She sure is pretty though, all worked up like that." Jake leans in against the man and whispers "Tell you what, give me her bullets and hand her the empty gun. She can follow me to get 'em if she wants, and that way she's out of your hair. Could be interesting...If you get my drift." Jake slaps him on the back and gives him a knowing grin. "Maybe I'll even tell you about it next time I'm by." He finishes with a wink. In a normal voice he says to him, "And if I am lucky, I'll buy you a drink to boot!" He watches Katherine walk unsteadily back into the saloon and hopes he does not have to go in and rescue her. Ruby is getting increasingly incensed at the situation. “Jake, what do you think you’re doing? I’m handling it! And you’re crazy if you think you’re getting lucky now, the only thing you’ll be getting is another slap!” Ruby pauses. “…Unless you actually can get this brute to give me back my gun before I really get upset…” The man had actually started to reach back to the cabinet with the checked guns until Ruby's comment and he realized that they knew each other. Instead he made a gesture over to the bar. Jake notices one of the bartenders reaching for something beneath the bar, most likely a weapon of some sort. The bouncer says "I'll give the gun to the Marshall. You three just get out of here before somebody gets hurt." [/QUOTE]
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