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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 2018420" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter Three, “The Lucky Lady”, Thursday, March 9th, 1882, 7:45 P.M. </strong> </p><p></p><p>The newly renamed Lucky Lady Dance Hall and Saloon is the second oldest drinking establishment in Promise City, Arizona. It had been built two years earlier by Tom and Maggie Whipple, who had named it the Lone Star. They began with a singer named Flossie; a combination bartender/bouncer named Jeff Mills and a mediocre gambler by the name Tony Lucky. The business picked up when superior gambler Job Kane started playing there. In January the Whipples were divorced and Tom headed off to Denver with Flossie while Maggie went out to California. Tom sold his half of the saloon to Job Kane and liquor distributor Niles over while Maggie sold hers to gambler Jake Cook and singer Ruby West. </p><p></p><p>Hoover handles the daily management operations of the saloon and occasionally tends bar. Jeff Mills is the head bartender with Hoover’s friend Harry Rote as his assistant bartender and Chester Martin filling in on Jeff's days off. Ruby is the primary entertainer with Kate Kale as her pianist. Sonoma Figueres and Clarisse Townsend sing and serve as waitresses along with Mrs. Kale. Maria Fuente is the saloon’s cook and occasional waitress, with Sonoma filling in as cook on Maria’s days off. The Indian Nanuet also helps out as needed.</p><p></p><p>Ruby and Jake were still out front when they saw that everyone returned inside. Ruby glanced at the sign one more time, took Jake's hand tightly in hers and headed back inside. Dinner was on the table and everyone was starting to eat. Ruby ran to the bar and grabbed a bottle of champagne, including some glasses. She poured everyone a drink, including Ginnie and held up her glass, "To the Lucky Lady!"</p><p></p><p>Kate quietly took the drink Ruby placed in front of Ginnie and moved it out of the girl's reach, replacing it with the glass of water she had been drinking before. She spent a moment looking at each face around the table. Jake and Ruby had been together for nearly two months now, and neither seemed to be in a hurry to move on. Kate kept quiet about the look in Ruby's eyes. She was not as skittish as she had been the first few weeks about getting tied down, but Kate doubted she was quite ready to hear the word love. </p><p></p><p>Chester had his interest in Clarisse, and Nanuet seemed to have settled somewhat into life here although she guessed it was still strange for him. She looked fondly over at Ginnie and let out a deep breath. Being quiet and busy suited her, and she was even looking forward to this night.</p><p></p><p>Ginnie watched as “Ma'am Kate” moved the champagne glass out of what she thought was her reach. As she was looking around the table Ginnie reached the glass and placed it in front of Kate. Ma'am Kate still looked at Ginnie as a child to be cared for and that suited her fine. There was a comfort in the idea of allowing someone else to think about the day to day food shelter and living things, but Ginnie was beginning to tire of sitting in the room for most of the day reading books and making lace. Hopefully tonight would start making her life a little more exciting again. She missed the adrenaline of always being aware and on top of her game. Ginnie was ready to start living a more exciting life again, the question being what would it take to do that.</p><p></p><p>While they were eating Jeff Mills went upstairs and returned with a painted wooden sign that he hand on the wall behind the bar. It was a smaller version of the Lucky Lady sign outdoors. When he's done he looks to Jake who nods back and smiles. "I'm done with decorating." He says to Ruby. "It's all yours to handle that again." "Oh, but you did such a good job," Ruby laughs, "I'm going to have to figure out how you kept that secret from me... but for now let's enjoy dinner." As they eat they chat about the new Lucky Lady and the Douglas Gang in Wyoming, but mostly keep it light.</p><p></p><p>After dinner is over Ruby pulls Ginnie aside and tells her, "Listen, I have a proposition to make to you. We both know we have some um, similar talents. And we know those that have those talents find it easier to spot others who have those talents. Hopefully, it's going to be very crowded here tonight. I'll be busy singing and entertaining and won't be able to keep such a close eye on things. Maybe you wouldn't mind keeping an eye open while enjoying yourself? And if you do a good job then maybe Jake and I might have some ways for you to make some money in the future..."</p><p></p><p>Tony Lucky arrives and sits down beside Jake. He laughs out, "Nice to see that you decided to name the place after me! But shouldn't it read Lucky's Lady?" "If we want to be accurate it would have read 'Lucky's Ladies'." Jake laughs back with him. "Tell you what. I'll have Jeff get the ladder and give you the paintbrush. Let's see if your feet even get a chance to touch the ground on the way back down before someone shoots you between the eyes." Jake leans in and whispers, "I've seen her shoot, she doesn't miss often."</p><p></p><p>Tony laughs in return. "Only kidding Boss man. You're predecessor made me promise to keep my hands off of all the female employees, said if I wanted to play here I couldn't play here. I suspect that was because he just wanted to keep them all to himself! Looks like you're continuing that tradition." "Not me, I got my hands full with one." Jake gives him a wink. "Didn't we just discuss her shooting ability?"</p><p></p><p>Tony replies, "Ah, so that new singer is fair game! Nice to know." Chester acts annoyed by that comment and attempts to change the subject by asking Tony, "Will Job be coming? I know he has tonight off but it is the Grand Reopening." Tony says, "Nope, you won't see him until tomorrow. He's got a Lady friend up in Willcox, northern end of the county, who he's been spending his Wednesdays to Fridays with." Tony heads immediately over to his poker table, where three of his regular players are waiting. Listening to Tony talk, Kate suddenly wished she had a shawl to cover herself up with. Thankfully he'd never shown any interest in her and considering the kind of girl he liked, it was unlikely he ever would. </p><p></p><p>Chumbley has finished selling papers to all interested customers in the saloon. He then gets a complimentary tankard of ale from Jeff Mills and heads over to the table to join the others. "One for the road before I go sell my other papers!" he says as he climbs up onto a chair. Jake tried to hide his annoyance when Chumbley came and sat with them. The diminutive man then downs the entire tankard in around a minute. It was a relief when Chumbley arrived, and Kate watched amazed as he pulled down his ale. Jake was about to tell the half-pint not to drink himself dumb, but then thought the better of it. A dumbstruck Chumbley might be an improvement. Instead he just smiled and wished him good luck.</p><p></p><p>"Where do you put it?" she laughed when he was finished. Chumbley says "And good luck with you're grand reopening." He heads over and picks up the remainder of the first stack of newspapers and bounces out the front door.</p><p></p><p>Kate stated, "I should go play, it's starting to pick up in here. I know you don't need any encouragement, but be sure to sell plenty of those papers. We want a good crowd here tonight." After speaking witty Ginnie Ruby walks back to the table. She glances around the room before looking back to a blushing Kate. "It's early to start singing. Kate, why don't you play? And while you do that I'll enjoy this champagne that no one wanted to share with me." Ruby pours herself another drink. "I'll share a little more before my game starts up." Jake goes and sits with her. </p><p></p><p>Kate exclaims, "I want to celebrate with you Ruby, but you know it's better if I don't drink too much. And Ginnie is really too young to be drinking. Let's give her some time to grow up before we start introducing her to all sorts of interesting vices." Kate leaned over and kissed Ruby's cheek. "Now, what do you want me to play? Standard songs? I don't know if classical pieces are what you want in here tonight."</p><p></p><p>"Kate, you are fooling yourself if you think that kid is too young for mostly anything. She has been living on the street how long?" Ruby pauses for a moment, "Well, let's not discuss it tonight anyway. You can play whatever you'd like for now, but later we need standards and fun songs to make the crowd happy. I guess I'll just see what everyone wants to hear as I go. So for now, just make yourself happy." Ruby watched Kate over to the piano with a smile before turning to Jake. </p><p>Kate decided that she would be playing saloon songs all night, so she’d start with some folk songs. They were light songs, appropriate for the mood tonight, but still something Katherine enjoyed playing. She kept her eye out for Ginnie, making sure Ruby didn't give her any more drinks and that no one bothered her.</p><p></p><p>Jake asks Ruby, "Are you ready for tonight? You should have quite a crowd." "Ready, what's ready? A wise man once said to me, 'I'm generally not ready for anything I start' and that's pretty much true for me too." Ruby pauses and smiles. "Then again, I slept with him right after he told me that, so I guess there are some things I am always ready for."</p><p></p><p>"All is good in the world then." Jake gets up and gives her a kiss. "I'm going to go earn us some money, I think there are some folks here who want to leave us some. I'll be right back down stairs" He goes upstairs and changes. He comes back down in his white silk shirt and black linen pants nods to Ruby and welcomes his players. Yes, he thinks to himself, for now all is good in the world. "Let's play."</p><p></p><p>Back when Job Kane was the main draw for the saloon he wound up playing six nights a week. One of the first things he did upon becoming an owner was decide to take some consecutive nights off during the week, picking Wednesday and Thursday. That had a huge advantage for Jake, as he inherited Job's players on those nights. </p><p></p><p>Looking around the table he recognized all five faces currently seated three of whom had been Job's. First there was the tall and clean cut Al Brower, who co-owned the gunshop, cigar shop and the Comique Saloon. Next was Tempel Morand, who managed the Rocking-H Ranch, ten miles southwest of town. He had been spending more time in town in recent weeks helping his uncle Zack with the family's new mining interests. The third of Job's former players was the town's blacksmith, Henry Weller. </p><p></p><p>Next was a player who Jake had attracted by the name of Don Wainright. Don and his wife Sandra ran a hardware store in town, which also stocked musical instruments and sheet music. Sandra also knew how to tune the pianos and her skills were greatly needed following the departure of the Whipples. Kate had sparked up a friendship with Sandra as Jake had with Don, who had never played poker before but was starting to get fairly good at it. </p><p></p><p>The last player was Alfredo Garcia. The previous owners had enforced a "humans only" policy that the new owners were quick to reverse. Having wood elves Sonoma and Maria helped to communicate that all were welcome. Alfredo was a half-elf who worked at Johnson's Barber and Baths. He didn't consider his poker skills good enough for the weekend crowd but was happy to join Jake's table on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The other Thursday night semi-regular hadn't arrived yet; the prospector Humphrey Lewis who was one of Jake's partners at the Fisk Mountain Mine.</p><p></p><p>Ruby drank her champagne and listened to Kate play. The songs she chose seemed to match her lighter mood. She watched Jake get ready to play cards. Ruby planned on "warming up" his table for him when he played, for fun, but not tonight, their grand reopening. Nanuet and Chester were having a lively debate about something and they were laughing and enjoying themselves. It felt good to have a place where they all could come together and relax. When it was time Ruby happily got on stage and sang her heart out.</p><p></p><p>During the next hour several new faces showed up at the saloon, many carrying the newspaper ad to get their free drink. Around half of them left after that but others stayed and took in the music. The remaining chairs at both Jake and Tony's tables soon fill up with new players. Jake discovers that the two at his table are a mineworker named Abel Weir and Carl Berman, who Jake has seen around town but never met before. Berman and Don Wainwright happily greet each other and are on a first name basis.</p><p></p><p>The offer to watch for others that might be aquisitionists felt right to Ginnie so she let Ruby know that she'd keep her eye out while she bussed tables. The place should be really busy tonight and Ma'am Kate would be busy serving and playing, so that would give Ginnie some real freedom for the first time in a long time. Ginnie scoped out the room seeing where she would be if she was planning to be on the take and marked those spots for "special" watching. The petite twelve-year old girl surmised that this could be a very lucrative night.</p><p></p><p>Ruby introduces herself and talks to all the new people in between sets. She'll lightly flirt but generally just try to make them feel at home and relaxed. She sings any requests that are asked for, mostly happy songs with some love ballads thrown in for good measure. As the crowd gets drunker she'll sing some drinking songs to help make sure their glasses stay full. As usual, she'll keep an eye on Kate and Jake, and now Ginnie too as she can.</p><p></p><p>Chumbley comes back for another pile of newspapers. The next hour goes well. Jake is having a fairly good night at his table, although Tempel Morand is the biggest winner. Both Weller and Garcia drop out of the game. Humphrey Lewis arrives and joins in, as does a cowhand from Morand's ranch named Jack Stuart. Jake continues to play and gives Ruby a smile.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 2018420, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter Three, “The Lucky Lady”, Thursday, March 9th, 1882, 7:45 P.M. [/B] The newly renamed Lucky Lady Dance Hall and Saloon is the second oldest drinking establishment in Promise City, Arizona. It had been built two years earlier by Tom and Maggie Whipple, who had named it the Lone Star. They began with a singer named Flossie; a combination bartender/bouncer named Jeff Mills and a mediocre gambler by the name Tony Lucky. The business picked up when superior gambler Job Kane started playing there. In January the Whipples were divorced and Tom headed off to Denver with Flossie while Maggie went out to California. Tom sold his half of the saloon to Job Kane and liquor distributor Niles over while Maggie sold hers to gambler Jake Cook and singer Ruby West. Hoover handles the daily management operations of the saloon and occasionally tends bar. Jeff Mills is the head bartender with Hoover’s friend Harry Rote as his assistant bartender and Chester Martin filling in on Jeff's days off. Ruby is the primary entertainer with Kate Kale as her pianist. Sonoma Figueres and Clarisse Townsend sing and serve as waitresses along with Mrs. Kale. Maria Fuente is the saloon’s cook and occasional waitress, with Sonoma filling in as cook on Maria’s days off. The Indian Nanuet also helps out as needed. Ruby and Jake were still out front when they saw that everyone returned inside. Ruby glanced at the sign one more time, took Jake's hand tightly in hers and headed back inside. Dinner was on the table and everyone was starting to eat. Ruby ran to the bar and grabbed a bottle of champagne, including some glasses. She poured everyone a drink, including Ginnie and held up her glass, "To the Lucky Lady!" Kate quietly took the drink Ruby placed in front of Ginnie and moved it out of the girl's reach, replacing it with the glass of water she had been drinking before. She spent a moment looking at each face around the table. Jake and Ruby had been together for nearly two months now, and neither seemed to be in a hurry to move on. Kate kept quiet about the look in Ruby's eyes. She was not as skittish as she had been the first few weeks about getting tied down, but Kate doubted she was quite ready to hear the word love. Chester had his interest in Clarisse, and Nanuet seemed to have settled somewhat into life here although she guessed it was still strange for him. She looked fondly over at Ginnie and let out a deep breath. Being quiet and busy suited her, and she was even looking forward to this night. Ginnie watched as “Ma'am Kate” moved the champagne glass out of what she thought was her reach. As she was looking around the table Ginnie reached the glass and placed it in front of Kate. Ma'am Kate still looked at Ginnie as a child to be cared for and that suited her fine. There was a comfort in the idea of allowing someone else to think about the day to day food shelter and living things, but Ginnie was beginning to tire of sitting in the room for most of the day reading books and making lace. Hopefully tonight would start making her life a little more exciting again. She missed the adrenaline of always being aware and on top of her game. Ginnie was ready to start living a more exciting life again, the question being what would it take to do that. While they were eating Jeff Mills went upstairs and returned with a painted wooden sign that he hand on the wall behind the bar. It was a smaller version of the Lucky Lady sign outdoors. When he's done he looks to Jake who nods back and smiles. "I'm done with decorating." He says to Ruby. "It's all yours to handle that again." "Oh, but you did such a good job," Ruby laughs, "I'm going to have to figure out how you kept that secret from me... but for now let's enjoy dinner." As they eat they chat about the new Lucky Lady and the Douglas Gang in Wyoming, but mostly keep it light. After dinner is over Ruby pulls Ginnie aside and tells her, "Listen, I have a proposition to make to you. We both know we have some um, similar talents. And we know those that have those talents find it easier to spot others who have those talents. Hopefully, it's going to be very crowded here tonight. I'll be busy singing and entertaining and won't be able to keep such a close eye on things. Maybe you wouldn't mind keeping an eye open while enjoying yourself? And if you do a good job then maybe Jake and I might have some ways for you to make some money in the future..." Tony Lucky arrives and sits down beside Jake. He laughs out, "Nice to see that you decided to name the place after me! But shouldn't it read Lucky's Lady?" "If we want to be accurate it would have read 'Lucky's Ladies'." Jake laughs back with him. "Tell you what. I'll have Jeff get the ladder and give you the paintbrush. Let's see if your feet even get a chance to touch the ground on the way back down before someone shoots you between the eyes." Jake leans in and whispers, "I've seen her shoot, she doesn't miss often." Tony laughs in return. "Only kidding Boss man. You're predecessor made me promise to keep my hands off of all the female employees, said if I wanted to play here I couldn't play here. I suspect that was because he just wanted to keep them all to himself! Looks like you're continuing that tradition." "Not me, I got my hands full with one." Jake gives him a wink. "Didn't we just discuss her shooting ability?" Tony replies, "Ah, so that new singer is fair game! Nice to know." Chester acts annoyed by that comment and attempts to change the subject by asking Tony, "Will Job be coming? I know he has tonight off but it is the Grand Reopening." Tony says, "Nope, you won't see him until tomorrow. He's got a Lady friend up in Willcox, northern end of the county, who he's been spending his Wednesdays to Fridays with." Tony heads immediately over to his poker table, where three of his regular players are waiting. Listening to Tony talk, Kate suddenly wished she had a shawl to cover herself up with. Thankfully he'd never shown any interest in her and considering the kind of girl he liked, it was unlikely he ever would. Chumbley has finished selling papers to all interested customers in the saloon. He then gets a complimentary tankard of ale from Jeff Mills and heads over to the table to join the others. "One for the road before I go sell my other papers!" he says as he climbs up onto a chair. Jake tried to hide his annoyance when Chumbley came and sat with them. The diminutive man then downs the entire tankard in around a minute. It was a relief when Chumbley arrived, and Kate watched amazed as he pulled down his ale. Jake was about to tell the half-pint not to drink himself dumb, but then thought the better of it. A dumbstruck Chumbley might be an improvement. Instead he just smiled and wished him good luck. "Where do you put it?" she laughed when he was finished. Chumbley says "And good luck with you're grand reopening." He heads over and picks up the remainder of the first stack of newspapers and bounces out the front door. Kate stated, "I should go play, it's starting to pick up in here. I know you don't need any encouragement, but be sure to sell plenty of those papers. We want a good crowd here tonight." After speaking witty Ginnie Ruby walks back to the table. She glances around the room before looking back to a blushing Kate. "It's early to start singing. Kate, why don't you play? And while you do that I'll enjoy this champagne that no one wanted to share with me." Ruby pours herself another drink. "I'll share a little more before my game starts up." Jake goes and sits with her. Kate exclaims, "I want to celebrate with you Ruby, but you know it's better if I don't drink too much. And Ginnie is really too young to be drinking. Let's give her some time to grow up before we start introducing her to all sorts of interesting vices." Kate leaned over and kissed Ruby's cheek. "Now, what do you want me to play? Standard songs? I don't know if classical pieces are what you want in here tonight." "Kate, you are fooling yourself if you think that kid is too young for mostly anything. She has been living on the street how long?" Ruby pauses for a moment, "Well, let's not discuss it tonight anyway. You can play whatever you'd like for now, but later we need standards and fun songs to make the crowd happy. I guess I'll just see what everyone wants to hear as I go. So for now, just make yourself happy." Ruby watched Kate over to the piano with a smile before turning to Jake. Kate decided that she would be playing saloon songs all night, so she’d start with some folk songs. They were light songs, appropriate for the mood tonight, but still something Katherine enjoyed playing. She kept her eye out for Ginnie, making sure Ruby didn't give her any more drinks and that no one bothered her. Jake asks Ruby, "Are you ready for tonight? You should have quite a crowd." "Ready, what's ready? A wise man once said to me, 'I'm generally not ready for anything I start' and that's pretty much true for me too." Ruby pauses and smiles. "Then again, I slept with him right after he told me that, so I guess there are some things I am always ready for." "All is good in the world then." Jake gets up and gives her a kiss. "I'm going to go earn us some money, I think there are some folks here who want to leave us some. I'll be right back down stairs" He goes upstairs and changes. He comes back down in his white silk shirt and black linen pants nods to Ruby and welcomes his players. Yes, he thinks to himself, for now all is good in the world. "Let's play." Back when Job Kane was the main draw for the saloon he wound up playing six nights a week. One of the first things he did upon becoming an owner was decide to take some consecutive nights off during the week, picking Wednesday and Thursday. That had a huge advantage for Jake, as he inherited Job's players on those nights. Looking around the table he recognized all five faces currently seated three of whom had been Job's. First there was the tall and clean cut Al Brower, who co-owned the gunshop, cigar shop and the Comique Saloon. Next was Tempel Morand, who managed the Rocking-H Ranch, ten miles southwest of town. He had been spending more time in town in recent weeks helping his uncle Zack with the family's new mining interests. The third of Job's former players was the town's blacksmith, Henry Weller. Next was a player who Jake had attracted by the name of Don Wainright. Don and his wife Sandra ran a hardware store in town, which also stocked musical instruments and sheet music. Sandra also knew how to tune the pianos and her skills were greatly needed following the departure of the Whipples. Kate had sparked up a friendship with Sandra as Jake had with Don, who had never played poker before but was starting to get fairly good at it. The last player was Alfredo Garcia. The previous owners had enforced a "humans only" policy that the new owners were quick to reverse. Having wood elves Sonoma and Maria helped to communicate that all were welcome. Alfredo was a half-elf who worked at Johnson's Barber and Baths. He didn't consider his poker skills good enough for the weekend crowd but was happy to join Jake's table on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The other Thursday night semi-regular hadn't arrived yet; the prospector Humphrey Lewis who was one of Jake's partners at the Fisk Mountain Mine. Ruby drank her champagne and listened to Kate play. The songs she chose seemed to match her lighter mood. She watched Jake get ready to play cards. Ruby planned on "warming up" his table for him when he played, for fun, but not tonight, their grand reopening. Nanuet and Chester were having a lively debate about something and they were laughing and enjoying themselves. It felt good to have a place where they all could come together and relax. When it was time Ruby happily got on stage and sang her heart out. During the next hour several new faces showed up at the saloon, many carrying the newspaper ad to get their free drink. Around half of them left after that but others stayed and took in the music. The remaining chairs at both Jake and Tony's tables soon fill up with new players. Jake discovers that the two at his table are a mineworker named Abel Weir and Carl Berman, who Jake has seen around town but never met before. Berman and Don Wainwright happily greet each other and are on a first name basis. The offer to watch for others that might be aquisitionists felt right to Ginnie so she let Ruby know that she'd keep her eye out while she bussed tables. The place should be really busy tonight and Ma'am Kate would be busy serving and playing, so that would give Ginnie some real freedom for the first time in a long time. Ginnie scoped out the room seeing where she would be if she was planning to be on the take and marked those spots for "special" watching. The petite twelve-year old girl surmised that this could be a very lucrative night. Ruby introduces herself and talks to all the new people in between sets. She'll lightly flirt but generally just try to make them feel at home and relaxed. She sings any requests that are asked for, mostly happy songs with some love ballads thrown in for good measure. As the crowd gets drunker she'll sing some drinking songs to help make sure their glasses stay full. As usual, she'll keep an eye on Kate and Jake, and now Ginnie too as she can. Chumbley comes back for another pile of newspapers. The next hour goes well. Jake is having a fairly good night at his table, although Tempel Morand is the biggest winner. Both Weller and Garcia drop out of the game. Humphrey Lewis arrives and joins in, as does a cowhand from Morand's ranch named Jack Stuart. Jake continues to play and gives Ruby a smile. [/QUOTE]
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