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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1912071" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter Sixty-three, “The Shaw Family”, Sunday, January 8th, 1882:</strong></p><p></p><p>Shaw brings them inside the main house of the ranch and he calls over a beautiful young lady with long auburn hair. He tells Ruby "This is my daughter Ellen. She can show you where to wash up." The women escorts her through the huge two-story wooden building which must have close to thirty rooms inside. She opens a door to a room with a large canopy bed with ruffled fringe. At the far end of the room is piping leading to a hand pump with vent beside it to direct the water to either a large metal bathtub of a smaller ceramic washbasin. Embroidered towels hand on a rack with the initials VAS stitched on them.</p><p></p><p>Ruby is amazed by the luxury of the room and the house. “This room is beautiful, Ellen is it your room? You must love living here. I would love to have a bath in a private room like this.” Ruby touches the towels on the rack. “VAS?”</p><p></p><p>Ellen replies "This was my mother's room. We use it for the occassional female guest who might come by. We don't get that many female guests though, not that my sister Trisha and I mind. Most of the men who work here are handsome rugged men. Even better are the two great looking men who we have here right now as guests. You'll meet them in a few minutes at diner." She then smiles and adds, "But hands off, Trisha and I saw them first." "Is that a challenge?" thinks Ruby. </p><p></p><p>As a afterthought Ellen says "So what do you do in Promise City?" Ruby replies, "I sing and dance at a Saloon. It's a job, nothing too exciting." She looks at the sorry state of her dress. "Darn! I ripped my dress getting jostled around in the coach. I'm going to need to do some shopping when I get back to Promise City." "So does this happen often, you taking in strangers from the coach?" Ellen replies "No, but we were expecting trouble. Don't worry about the dress, you look fine. I'd offer to loan you one of mine or Trisha's but I doubt that it would fit. You're, well, more bosomy than either of us." </p><p></p><p>While Ruby is washing up, Jake corners Chester. Asks him if he knows about the Cowboy Gang, and the feud with the Earps. Chester smiles, "I don't really know anyone down here. I got tired of Kansas and Tombstone was the next departing train." </p><p></p><p>Jake gives him a quick summary of what is going on, including some names of those on both sides. "So why'd you decide on Promise City instead of finding work in Tombstone?" Chester replies, "I take it you've had a run-in wit' some of those fellas? You and Miss Ruby must be lucky not to end up goners. As far as Tombstone goes, I didn't like the feel of the place. I figure Promise City has a better ring to it, don't you think?" "Yah, I suppose it does." Jake says.</p><p></p><p>Ellen leads Ruby back outside, picking up Jake along the way. They then enter the dining room, where Emery Shaw is sitting along with a young strawberry blond woman who resembles Ellen. Also at the table are the men called Chester and Riley from the coach, Chuck Nevers, and a few ranch hands. Also seated at the table are the two 'guests' who Ellen had spoken of, as Heath and Nick Barkley look up towards Ruby and Jake. Emery gestures to them and tells Ruby "There are the brave men I spoke of."</p><p></p><p>"Nick, Heath, good to see you again." Jake pulls Ruby's chair out for her. Ruby sits down. "Thanks Jake." She nods towards Heath and Nick. "And it is good to see you again." She glances over to see the jealous looks on Ellen and Tricia's faces. "These certainly are brave men. We hear you have some stories to tell?"</p><p></p><p>Heath is unsure of how to answer. Nick says "Well, you both have already heard them." He then adds "So, I hear that the Cowboy Gang went after you guys just now. Emery has been nice enough to host our herd here, but we've been afraid of retribution for what we did to that Gang's leaders yesterday." </p><p></p><p>Emery speaks up and says "I've got men posted a mile out all around the ranch, which is why we were able to react so quickly when we heard the shots. If that Cowboy Gang comes here looking for trouble they'll regret it. Heath here says that Curley Bill is dead, so I imagine the rest of the gang is unsure of what to do next until a new leader steps up. I imagine that'll be Johnny Ringo."</p><p></p><p>A bit self consciously, Jake takes his coat off and puts it on the back of the chair and sits down. "Does anybody know where Johnny Ringo is?" Nobody present knows the whereabouts of Ringo. He was seen a few weeks back in Tombstone and earlier than that in Galeyville. One ranch hand thinks he saw him fairly recently in the town of Dos Cabezas. </p><p></p><p>The meal is concluded and Emery invites the men to join him out on the veranda for cigars and whiskey. Jake will pass on the cigar, never acquired a taste for them, but thanks his host graciously for the whiskey. "A fine meal. Thank you, Mr. Shaw. I'd be glad to bend an elbow wit' you." He lights his cigar. "This is a fine smoke, sir." Picking up his glass, Chester toasts his host. "Here's mud in your eye." </p><p></p><p>Ellen and Trisha head into the parlor with Ruby. She assumes they are going to offer her tea and cookies, but instead they offer her whiskey and a chance to play poker with them. Ellen says "What do you expect? We hang out on a ranch full of men." Ruby gladly partakes in the whiskey and the poker. During which Ellen and Trisha talk mostly about the men and press Ruby for details of whatever she might know of Heath and Nick. She'll tell them anything she knows about them but she won't talk about Jake. Ruby discovers that Ellen is 22 and Trisha is 20. Their mother died 7 years earlier.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Emery Shaw asks Jake, Chester and Riley about what they are doing in Promise City and if they ever considered ranching. Riley says "I'm going to look for some work there. I haven't thought about ranching. I used to be in the cavalry, so I've been around animals." Jake tells him he's currently working for Condon, but has a number of interesting skills and does odd jobs on the side, like dealing poker at the Lone Star. "I've got no talent with animals and no experience ranching, but you're a fine host here Mr. Shaw and if you ever want some help with a poker game for you and your friends just let me know."</p><p></p><p>Jake says, "I didn't realize just how familiar you were Mr. Shaw with the Cowboy Gang problem. Given that, let me say again I appreciate your hospitality. So let me say too, that I have reason to believe that Buckskin Frank Leslie, Billy Claibourne and his friend Dell were among the five horseman. And I don't think they had come all the way out just to rob the stage." He nods to Nick Barkley. "I'm a little worried about some folks in Promise City who don't know that they could be in danger. As you said Nick, I think they are looking for revenge." Nick says "You mean the Cartwrights? I wouldn't worry too much about them, they've got a long history of taking care of themselves." </p><p></p><p>Emery Shaw tells Jake how pleased he is that Curley Bill is gone and not to worry so much about the others. He adds "Those guys you mentioned are mostly Tombstone folks, they usually don't head over to this side of the county. Give Sheriff Behan and his deputies a week to clean up this hornet's nest and things will then settle down again." </p><p></p><p>I do agree with your assessment, they were probably coming here for revenge against the Cartwrights and Barkleys. But they'll be moving out for good on Tuesday, and I doubt the outlaws will follow them all the way to Nevada and California." He then glances at Heath and Nick and adds "Although my daughter's might. I'd better lock them in their rooms when you boys decide to move on."</p><p></p><p>It's around 6:30 PM when Humphrey Shaw and Newton Gilly return, along with Deputy Sheriff Colin Hunter, Wells Fargo drivers Billy Glass and Chandler Wells, Office Manager Kris Wagner, and office clerk Coolie Fagan (a half-orc). The stagecoach is readied to travel again. Chester shakes Emery Shaw's hand. "Thank you for the meal and the drink, sir. That was right nice of you." Nick and Heath decide to ride along as well. They decide to take the bumpier but shorter cattle trail to Promise City rather than the main road, arriving back in Promise City at around 8:00 P.M. </p><p></p><p>Kris Wagner is very apologetic to all four passengers. He refunds both Chester and Riley the $ 3.00 they had each paid for the one-way fare and refunds Ruby and Jake each $ 2.50 (half the price of a round-trip fare). Chester comments, "Not much you could have done about it. Your drivers kept us safe. But thank you anyway." He doesn't refuse the refund, though. </p><p></p><p>Wagner takes them to the front door of the El Parador rather than making them walk from the Wells Fargo buildings. Ruby says, Chester, this is where we are staying. It's not the nicest place in town, but it has the nicest people in it." She says with a wink. Chester comments, Well. That's good enough for me. I hope it's cheap."</p><p>She turns to Jake. "Two questions. What are we going to tell Kate about where we were and..." she pauses and bites her lip, then looks up at Jake, "Is it too late for that after dinner drink?"</p><p></p><p>Jake passes his hand over his mustache and says "Tell her you went shopping for undergarments and a surprise for me. And that I wouldn't let you go to Tombstone alone. It's at least partly true." Then with a smile he lifts the bag with the two bottles in it, "I'm still looking forward to that drink. As far as I am concerned it is still early. Why don't we cleanup, put stuff away and say hello to folks. Otherwise I'm sure we'll get interrupted. Katherine will have chickens if you don't talk to her and tell her everything is all right." He catches the look concerned look on Ruby's face. "For now at least, everything is all right. Go!" He gives her a little push from behind. </p><p></p><p>Nick and Heath head off in search of the Cartwrights. The four passengers head into the El Parador. Chester enters the Saloon, which is relatively quiet at the moment. He sees a high elf and two wood elves sitting together at a table. A human woman is sitting at a piano. A wood elf and another human are at a different table. Another wood elf is behind the bar. He approaches the one at the bar and inquires about a room. The man introduces himself as Pedro and says that rooms are $ 1 a night. Chester pays for one night and Pedro hands him a key to Room #8, which he says is on the second floor. </p><p></p><p>Jake looks around the room checking for Elliot or his friends. Not seeing them he heads upstairs and drops his stuff off, including the troublesome coat and extra pistol. He then notices the deck of cards he was carrying is 51 cards light, and is not surprised that the single card in his pocket is a queen of hearts. Laughing, he quickly comes back down and looks for Dorita. Securing two of whatever desert she can locate he heads over to the jail to see Job Kane for a couple of minutes. He figures if he gives the marshal one, he might give him less of a hard time.</p><p></p><p>Riley is the next to enter. He immediately recognizes Sanoma and Nanuet from his dreams. He figures there is no point in putting off the discussion so walks directly to the table, puts down his bag and rifles on the floor beside them, stares Nanuet in the face and says "Hello. This may sound odd, but do you know an Apache named Kajika?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 1912071, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter Sixty-three, “The Shaw Family”, Sunday, January 8th, 1882:[/B] Shaw brings them inside the main house of the ranch and he calls over a beautiful young lady with long auburn hair. He tells Ruby "This is my daughter Ellen. She can show you where to wash up." The women escorts her through the huge two-story wooden building which must have close to thirty rooms inside. She opens a door to a room with a large canopy bed with ruffled fringe. At the far end of the room is piping leading to a hand pump with vent beside it to direct the water to either a large metal bathtub of a smaller ceramic washbasin. Embroidered towels hand on a rack with the initials VAS stitched on them. Ruby is amazed by the luxury of the room and the house. “This room is beautiful, Ellen is it your room? You must love living here. I would love to have a bath in a private room like this.” Ruby touches the towels on the rack. “VAS?” Ellen replies "This was my mother's room. We use it for the occassional female guest who might come by. We don't get that many female guests though, not that my sister Trisha and I mind. Most of the men who work here are handsome rugged men. Even better are the two great looking men who we have here right now as guests. You'll meet them in a few minutes at diner." She then smiles and adds, "But hands off, Trisha and I saw them first." "Is that a challenge?" thinks Ruby. As a afterthought Ellen says "So what do you do in Promise City?" Ruby replies, "I sing and dance at a Saloon. It's a job, nothing too exciting." She looks at the sorry state of her dress. "Darn! I ripped my dress getting jostled around in the coach. I'm going to need to do some shopping when I get back to Promise City." "So does this happen often, you taking in strangers from the coach?" Ellen replies "No, but we were expecting trouble. Don't worry about the dress, you look fine. I'd offer to loan you one of mine or Trisha's but I doubt that it would fit. You're, well, more bosomy than either of us." While Ruby is washing up, Jake corners Chester. Asks him if he knows about the Cowboy Gang, and the feud with the Earps. Chester smiles, "I don't really know anyone down here. I got tired of Kansas and Tombstone was the next departing train." Jake gives him a quick summary of what is going on, including some names of those on both sides. "So why'd you decide on Promise City instead of finding work in Tombstone?" Chester replies, "I take it you've had a run-in wit' some of those fellas? You and Miss Ruby must be lucky not to end up goners. As far as Tombstone goes, I didn't like the feel of the place. I figure Promise City has a better ring to it, don't you think?" "Yah, I suppose it does." Jake says. Ellen leads Ruby back outside, picking up Jake along the way. They then enter the dining room, where Emery Shaw is sitting along with a young strawberry blond woman who resembles Ellen. Also at the table are the men called Chester and Riley from the coach, Chuck Nevers, and a few ranch hands. Also seated at the table are the two 'guests' who Ellen had spoken of, as Heath and Nick Barkley look up towards Ruby and Jake. Emery gestures to them and tells Ruby "There are the brave men I spoke of." "Nick, Heath, good to see you again." Jake pulls Ruby's chair out for her. Ruby sits down. "Thanks Jake." She nods towards Heath and Nick. "And it is good to see you again." She glances over to see the jealous looks on Ellen and Tricia's faces. "These certainly are brave men. We hear you have some stories to tell?" Heath is unsure of how to answer. Nick says "Well, you both have already heard them." He then adds "So, I hear that the Cowboy Gang went after you guys just now. Emery has been nice enough to host our herd here, but we've been afraid of retribution for what we did to that Gang's leaders yesterday." Emery speaks up and says "I've got men posted a mile out all around the ranch, which is why we were able to react so quickly when we heard the shots. If that Cowboy Gang comes here looking for trouble they'll regret it. Heath here says that Curley Bill is dead, so I imagine the rest of the gang is unsure of what to do next until a new leader steps up. I imagine that'll be Johnny Ringo." A bit self consciously, Jake takes his coat off and puts it on the back of the chair and sits down. "Does anybody know where Johnny Ringo is?" Nobody present knows the whereabouts of Ringo. He was seen a few weeks back in Tombstone and earlier than that in Galeyville. One ranch hand thinks he saw him fairly recently in the town of Dos Cabezas. The meal is concluded and Emery invites the men to join him out on the veranda for cigars and whiskey. Jake will pass on the cigar, never acquired a taste for them, but thanks his host graciously for the whiskey. "A fine meal. Thank you, Mr. Shaw. I'd be glad to bend an elbow wit' you." He lights his cigar. "This is a fine smoke, sir." Picking up his glass, Chester toasts his host. "Here's mud in your eye." Ellen and Trisha head into the parlor with Ruby. She assumes they are going to offer her tea and cookies, but instead they offer her whiskey and a chance to play poker with them. Ellen says "What do you expect? We hang out on a ranch full of men." Ruby gladly partakes in the whiskey and the poker. During which Ellen and Trisha talk mostly about the men and press Ruby for details of whatever she might know of Heath and Nick. She'll tell them anything she knows about them but she won't talk about Jake. Ruby discovers that Ellen is 22 and Trisha is 20. Their mother died 7 years earlier. Meanwhile, Emery Shaw asks Jake, Chester and Riley about what they are doing in Promise City and if they ever considered ranching. Riley says "I'm going to look for some work there. I haven't thought about ranching. I used to be in the cavalry, so I've been around animals." Jake tells him he's currently working for Condon, but has a number of interesting skills and does odd jobs on the side, like dealing poker at the Lone Star. "I've got no talent with animals and no experience ranching, but you're a fine host here Mr. Shaw and if you ever want some help with a poker game for you and your friends just let me know." Jake says, "I didn't realize just how familiar you were Mr. Shaw with the Cowboy Gang problem. Given that, let me say again I appreciate your hospitality. So let me say too, that I have reason to believe that Buckskin Frank Leslie, Billy Claibourne and his friend Dell were among the five horseman. And I don't think they had come all the way out just to rob the stage." He nods to Nick Barkley. "I'm a little worried about some folks in Promise City who don't know that they could be in danger. As you said Nick, I think they are looking for revenge." Nick says "You mean the Cartwrights? I wouldn't worry too much about them, they've got a long history of taking care of themselves." Emery Shaw tells Jake how pleased he is that Curley Bill is gone and not to worry so much about the others. He adds "Those guys you mentioned are mostly Tombstone folks, they usually don't head over to this side of the county. Give Sheriff Behan and his deputies a week to clean up this hornet's nest and things will then settle down again." I do agree with your assessment, they were probably coming here for revenge against the Cartwrights and Barkleys. But they'll be moving out for good on Tuesday, and I doubt the outlaws will follow them all the way to Nevada and California." He then glances at Heath and Nick and adds "Although my daughter's might. I'd better lock them in their rooms when you boys decide to move on." It's around 6:30 PM when Humphrey Shaw and Newton Gilly return, along with Deputy Sheriff Colin Hunter, Wells Fargo drivers Billy Glass and Chandler Wells, Office Manager Kris Wagner, and office clerk Coolie Fagan (a half-orc). The stagecoach is readied to travel again. Chester shakes Emery Shaw's hand. "Thank you for the meal and the drink, sir. That was right nice of you." Nick and Heath decide to ride along as well. They decide to take the bumpier but shorter cattle trail to Promise City rather than the main road, arriving back in Promise City at around 8:00 P.M. Kris Wagner is very apologetic to all four passengers. He refunds both Chester and Riley the $ 3.00 they had each paid for the one-way fare and refunds Ruby and Jake each $ 2.50 (half the price of a round-trip fare). Chester comments, "Not much you could have done about it. Your drivers kept us safe. But thank you anyway." He doesn't refuse the refund, though. Wagner takes them to the front door of the El Parador rather than making them walk from the Wells Fargo buildings. Ruby says, Chester, this is where we are staying. It's not the nicest place in town, but it has the nicest people in it." She says with a wink. Chester comments, Well. That's good enough for me. I hope it's cheap." She turns to Jake. "Two questions. What are we going to tell Kate about where we were and..." she pauses and bites her lip, then looks up at Jake, "Is it too late for that after dinner drink?" Jake passes his hand over his mustache and says "Tell her you went shopping for undergarments and a surprise for me. And that I wouldn't let you go to Tombstone alone. It's at least partly true." Then with a smile he lifts the bag with the two bottles in it, "I'm still looking forward to that drink. As far as I am concerned it is still early. Why don't we cleanup, put stuff away and say hello to folks. Otherwise I'm sure we'll get interrupted. Katherine will have chickens if you don't talk to her and tell her everything is all right." He catches the look concerned look on Ruby's face. "For now at least, everything is all right. Go!" He gives her a little push from behind. Nick and Heath head off in search of the Cartwrights. The four passengers head into the El Parador. Chester enters the Saloon, which is relatively quiet at the moment. He sees a high elf and two wood elves sitting together at a table. A human woman is sitting at a piano. A wood elf and another human are at a different table. Another wood elf is behind the bar. He approaches the one at the bar and inquires about a room. The man introduces himself as Pedro and says that rooms are $ 1 a night. Chester pays for one night and Pedro hands him a key to Room #8, which he says is on the second floor. Jake looks around the room checking for Elliot or his friends. Not seeing them he heads upstairs and drops his stuff off, including the troublesome coat and extra pistol. He then notices the deck of cards he was carrying is 51 cards light, and is not surprised that the single card in his pocket is a queen of hearts. Laughing, he quickly comes back down and looks for Dorita. Securing two of whatever desert she can locate he heads over to the jail to see Job Kane for a couple of minutes. He figures if he gives the marshal one, he might give him less of a hard time. Riley is the next to enter. He immediately recognizes Sanoma and Nanuet from his dreams. He figures there is no point in putting off the discussion so walks directly to the table, puts down his bag and rifles on the floor beside them, stares Nanuet in the face and says "Hello. This may sound odd, but do you know an Apache named Kajika?" [/QUOTE]
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