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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 4314640" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter Two, “Teenagers”, Wednesday, November 22, 1882:</strong></p><p></p><p>As Ginnie leaves the meeting she runs into her friends Cathleen and Colleen O’Hara. Ginnie exclaims, “I never have to ride a horse on purpose again!” Kate and Jake are filing out behind them and heard the yell. Kate asks “How does one ride a horse not on purpose?” Ginnie turns around and says, “Usually when somebody is shooting at us.” “Smart girl,” Jake states.</p><p></p><p>Ginnie ignores the adults, who head off on their own. Jake goes back to the saloon for his share of carousing and drinking. Ginnie turns back to her friends states “I don’t have to take horse lessons any more.” Cathleen says, “Oh, I’m gonna miss you.” “You can whine later,” Ginnie tells her. Colleen asks, “What happened?” Ginnie answers, “Money, mines, no more horses.” “Explain?” states Colleen. Ginnie quickly fills them in about the meeting. Cathleen cries out sadly, “Ohh, so you’re not going to go to horse riding lessons any more.” </p><p></p><p>Two more students from the school come over, the first being the Mayor’s half-elf niece Emily Banks who Colleen has been receiving druidic training with. The ancient elf of the Yavapai tribe named Jadito has been passing on his nature priest knowledge to the children. The other student is Morgan, a young man of Welch descent whose family had arrived in the area during the past month, his father is working at one of the mines. Morgan hasn’t the strength or constitution to go into mining, spending most of his time writing, reading and reciting literature. </p><p></p><p>Emily says to Ginnie, “So, what did Jake have to say to you?” Ginnie replies, “All Jake knows, or wants to know, is that I help make him lots of money. He has no problem with that. I am also very good as head of security for the Lucky Lady.” Emily replies, “Because nobody expects a little girl to be head of security.” Morgan approaches them saying “Good day ladies.”</p><p></p><p>Ginnie exclaims, “Morgan! I was checking out this book on ancient runic signs and I think there are some things that you might be interested in.” “More books?” Emily comments. Ginnie says, “Books are great. There’s all sorts of stuff that you can take, and you can use, and you can twist, and you can change and you can make it work for you…extensively entertaining!” Colleen says, “Ginnie, you’re babbling again.” </p><p></p><p>The conversation shifts to mining, with Morgan commenting how he is worried about his father working today with dynamite on the new mine head. Emily comments that “Blowing up things hurts things, although I guess rocks aren’t so bad.” Cathleen exclaims, “It’s really cool! It makes a big bangy sound! And light! And smoke!” Colleen says, “Cathleen, shut up.” </p><p></p><p>Ginnie goes back to her conversation with Morgan saying, “It’s like this. You take the book and you find the thing of interest, and that thing has specific properties that are listed in the book, then you manipulate the properties with other combinations to create other things.” “Is she talking about a science book?” Cathleen asks her twin. Colleen replies, “I certainly hope so.” Emily says, “I already know about those things, Jadito is teaching me that, I don’t need a book.” Ginnie answers, “You do if you want to learn it on your own. Plus an instructor may not know everybody, with the books you can cross reference.” </p><p></p><p>The following day is the fourth Thursday in November on which date the National holiday of Thanksgiving is celebrated. It had been declared as such by President Lincoln back during the Civil War, meaning that all banks and Government buildings are closed, which would also include the school. The teenagers are all excited about having the next day off from school. Ginnie exclaims, “I’ll have the time to do some real analytical research.” “Or have some fun,” Cathleen states. Colleen tells her sister, “Ginnie considers that fun.”</p><p></p><p>Emily says, “I for one will not look at a book for the whole twenty-four hours, or more, that is a real day off from school.” Colleen says, “And we’ll have a nice Thanksgiving dinner.” Ginnie whines, “Ohhh, darn, Ma’am Kate can’t cook.” Kate is still barely within earshot and heads over upon hearing her name. Ginnie says, “Ma’am Kate, are you cooking Thanksgiving dinner?” Kate replies, “I wasn’t planning on it. We’ll eat at the El Parador.” Ginnie asks, “Does Dorita even make turkey enchiladas?” </p><p></p><p>Ginnie says, “That’s fine, I was just hoping that you wouldn’t attempt it. It is a holiday and sometimes you do that, and I can’t handle any more boiled eggs I just can’t.” “I can’t be good at everything. We also have money now, I can always hire us a cook. We need to start looking for someone,” is Kate’s reply. She adds, “This house is too big now without the school being in it.” Ginnie replies, “You’re telling me? I do most of the cleaning.” “I do some too,” Kate states. </p><p></p><p>They wander out of earshot of the other teenagers and Ginnie asks, “Who should we hire?” Kate says, “We’ll have to careful if we have an outsider in the house….unless of course, we hire someone who Dorita knows, then it won’t matter.” Ginnie says, “We shouldn’t hire anybody as a cook who Dorita doesn’t know. She’s the only one in town who can really cook.” Kate points out that Hannah Milford, Milissa Smith, Walter O’Rielly and Joseppi Franjolupi are all excellent cooks as well. </p><p></p><p>“They’re not Dorita,” is Ginnie’s answer. Kate adds, “True, but I was also thinking that a friend of Dorita’s might understand that there may be things in our home that they might see that others would be alarmed about. We’ll find somebody, perhaps a combination housekeeper and cook.” “Just so there’s no more boiled eggs and burnt toast as a meal,” Ginnie says. </p><p></p><p>Colleen and Emily go off with Jadito to do some more training and he teaches them a whole lot of new low-level druidic spells. They engage in an ethical debate about whether it is honest to befriend livestock that you plan to cook and eat. Emily declares that would be dishonest, that she has no problem with eating livestock but she won’t trick them into walking into their deaths. </p><p></p><p>Thursday, November 23, 1882:</p><p></p><p>Since Ginnie does not have to go to school this day she gets up early, does some studying, then goes and does some serious research in Manuel Gonzales’s workroom and laboratory. Emily Banks is up early too and quickly leaves before she has to deal with her cracky, spoiled and rather pregnant cousin Ellen. She has grown to dislike Ellen, having instead gotten closer to her cousin Tricia instead. This is due in part to Mayor Emory Shaw taking a liking to Tricia’s boyfriend, the now wealthy Cunningham Mine owner. Emily could care less about him being rich, but this shows that his interest in her cousin isn’t just for Shaw’s money. </p><p></p><p>Colleen O’Hara and Emily Banks meeting at the grove near the church to practice some of the new druid spells that they learned. Cathleen O’Hara twins would opt to sleep late, except for the fact that her five younger siblings do not allow her to. </p><p></p><p>Once Ginnie has finished up her studying she heads downstairs at the El Parador for some breakfast. She tells Dorita "Ma’am Kate said that we can finally hire a cook! Find me one!” Dorita assures her that she will find them a good cook. Ginnie is pleased by that news and heads out with a huge smile on her face. </p><p></p><p>Ginnie meets Colleen, Cathleen and Emily at the Lucky Lady, as the regular wait staff has been given the afternoon off since the kids were available to wait on the lunch crowd, a job they have continued to do when available since the poker tournament last June. </p><p></p><p>There are now eighteen stagecoaches a week, a daily run to and from Wilcox, a run to and from Tombstone each weekday, two runs between Tombstone on weekends, and twice a week eastbound stage between Tombstone and El Paso, Texas, as well as two westbound stages heading the other direction. Three stages have come to town today, the Tombstone stage, the Wilcox stage, and the westbound El Paso to Tombstone stage. </p><p></p><p>Ginnie always make sure that somebody from the Lucky Lady Dance Hall and Saloon is waiting to greet every stagecoach that arrives in town, handing out a flyer to the Lucky Lady with a discount on their first drink or meal. Instead of Jeff Mills or Thom greeting the stages today an enthusiastic Ginnie does the job herself, managing to convince a number of people to visit. Later that day she notices that one of the El Paso to Tombstone patrons had left behind a newspaper, one that she does not normally see. </p><p></p><p>Being something new to read Ginnie sits down with a cup of lemonade and plate of cookies to read what it has to say. It is not much of a newspaper, only four pages, and titled “The Dead Mule Gazette”. It has an elaborate letterhead reading “The Dead Mule Weekly Gazette, Dead Mule, New Mexico Territory, Frank Washbuck Editor”. Ginnie vaguely recalls a reporter named Frank Washbuck attended the poker tournament last June. Washbuck was a big, bald barrel-chested man with a handlebar mustache. She has no idea exactly where Dead Mule, New Mexico is but assumes it is somewhere along the stagecoach route, probably a stage stop for the horses to be swapped out. </p><p></p><p>Most of the stories concern Deming, New Mexico, which she thinks is due east. To satisfy her immediate need to know she heads over to the Wells Fargo office to consult their map, verifiying that Deming is approximately 100 miles east, with the smaller community of Dead Mule around 75 miles east of Promise City. Heading back to the Lucky Lady and refilling her milk glass and cookie plate, she continues reading the paper. </p><p></p><p>There is a nasty editorial that criticizes Sheriff Earnest Johnson of Dead Mule, saying that he is a coward, completely useless, will not do his job and lets Vigilantes run roughshod over the town. “So it’s the same as here?” Ginnie comments out loud to herself. The final story that her eyes set upon, in the middle of page four, makes her heart skip a beat. It mentions that a man by the name of Antonio Mendoza has arrived in town seeking Dutch Jack, a prospector in the area, and accusing Dutch Jack of stealing a precious family heirloom of the Mendoza’s, namely a map. As the last surviving Mendoza he wishes to get this map back, stating that it was made by his ancestor of his named Jaun Phillipe Sebastian Mendoza. Ginnie recognizes that name and charges out of the saloon and back to Manuel Gonzales’s library to confirm what she suspects.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 4314640, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter Two, “Teenagers”, Wednesday, November 22, 1882:[/B] As Ginnie leaves the meeting she runs into her friends Cathleen and Colleen O’Hara. Ginnie exclaims, “I never have to ride a horse on purpose again!” Kate and Jake are filing out behind them and heard the yell. Kate asks “How does one ride a horse not on purpose?” Ginnie turns around and says, “Usually when somebody is shooting at us.” “Smart girl,” Jake states. Ginnie ignores the adults, who head off on their own. Jake goes back to the saloon for his share of carousing and drinking. Ginnie turns back to her friends states “I don’t have to take horse lessons any more.” Cathleen says, “Oh, I’m gonna miss you.” “You can whine later,” Ginnie tells her. Colleen asks, “What happened?” Ginnie answers, “Money, mines, no more horses.” “Explain?” states Colleen. Ginnie quickly fills them in about the meeting. Cathleen cries out sadly, “Ohh, so you’re not going to go to horse riding lessons any more.” Two more students from the school come over, the first being the Mayor’s half-elf niece Emily Banks who Colleen has been receiving druidic training with. The ancient elf of the Yavapai tribe named Jadito has been passing on his nature priest knowledge to the children. The other student is Morgan, a young man of Welch descent whose family had arrived in the area during the past month, his father is working at one of the mines. Morgan hasn’t the strength or constitution to go into mining, spending most of his time writing, reading and reciting literature. Emily says to Ginnie, “So, what did Jake have to say to you?” Ginnie replies, “All Jake knows, or wants to know, is that I help make him lots of money. He has no problem with that. I am also very good as head of security for the Lucky Lady.” Emily replies, “Because nobody expects a little girl to be head of security.” Morgan approaches them saying “Good day ladies.” Ginnie exclaims, “Morgan! I was checking out this book on ancient runic signs and I think there are some things that you might be interested in.” “More books?” Emily comments. Ginnie says, “Books are great. There’s all sorts of stuff that you can take, and you can use, and you can twist, and you can change and you can make it work for you…extensively entertaining!” Colleen says, “Ginnie, you’re babbling again.” The conversation shifts to mining, with Morgan commenting how he is worried about his father working today with dynamite on the new mine head. Emily comments that “Blowing up things hurts things, although I guess rocks aren’t so bad.” Cathleen exclaims, “It’s really cool! It makes a big bangy sound! And light! And smoke!” Colleen says, “Cathleen, shut up.” Ginnie goes back to her conversation with Morgan saying, “It’s like this. You take the book and you find the thing of interest, and that thing has specific properties that are listed in the book, then you manipulate the properties with other combinations to create other things.” “Is she talking about a science book?” Cathleen asks her twin. Colleen replies, “I certainly hope so.” Emily says, “I already know about those things, Jadito is teaching me that, I don’t need a book.” Ginnie answers, “You do if you want to learn it on your own. Plus an instructor may not know everybody, with the books you can cross reference.” The following day is the fourth Thursday in November on which date the National holiday of Thanksgiving is celebrated. It had been declared as such by President Lincoln back during the Civil War, meaning that all banks and Government buildings are closed, which would also include the school. The teenagers are all excited about having the next day off from school. Ginnie exclaims, “I’ll have the time to do some real analytical research.” “Or have some fun,” Cathleen states. Colleen tells her sister, “Ginnie considers that fun.” Emily says, “I for one will not look at a book for the whole twenty-four hours, or more, that is a real day off from school.” Colleen says, “And we’ll have a nice Thanksgiving dinner.” Ginnie whines, “Ohhh, darn, Ma’am Kate can’t cook.” Kate is still barely within earshot and heads over upon hearing her name. Ginnie says, “Ma’am Kate, are you cooking Thanksgiving dinner?” Kate replies, “I wasn’t planning on it. We’ll eat at the El Parador.” Ginnie asks, “Does Dorita even make turkey enchiladas?” Ginnie says, “That’s fine, I was just hoping that you wouldn’t attempt it. It is a holiday and sometimes you do that, and I can’t handle any more boiled eggs I just can’t.” “I can’t be good at everything. We also have money now, I can always hire us a cook. We need to start looking for someone,” is Kate’s reply. She adds, “This house is too big now without the school being in it.” Ginnie replies, “You’re telling me? I do most of the cleaning.” “I do some too,” Kate states. They wander out of earshot of the other teenagers and Ginnie asks, “Who should we hire?” Kate says, “We’ll have to careful if we have an outsider in the house….unless of course, we hire someone who Dorita knows, then it won’t matter.” Ginnie says, “We shouldn’t hire anybody as a cook who Dorita doesn’t know. She’s the only one in town who can really cook.” Kate points out that Hannah Milford, Milissa Smith, Walter O’Rielly and Joseppi Franjolupi are all excellent cooks as well. “They’re not Dorita,” is Ginnie’s answer. Kate adds, “True, but I was also thinking that a friend of Dorita’s might understand that there may be things in our home that they might see that others would be alarmed about. We’ll find somebody, perhaps a combination housekeeper and cook.” “Just so there’s no more boiled eggs and burnt toast as a meal,” Ginnie says. Colleen and Emily go off with Jadito to do some more training and he teaches them a whole lot of new low-level druidic spells. They engage in an ethical debate about whether it is honest to befriend livestock that you plan to cook and eat. Emily declares that would be dishonest, that she has no problem with eating livestock but she won’t trick them into walking into their deaths. Thursday, November 23, 1882: Since Ginnie does not have to go to school this day she gets up early, does some studying, then goes and does some serious research in Manuel Gonzales’s workroom and laboratory. Emily Banks is up early too and quickly leaves before she has to deal with her cracky, spoiled and rather pregnant cousin Ellen. She has grown to dislike Ellen, having instead gotten closer to her cousin Tricia instead. This is due in part to Mayor Emory Shaw taking a liking to Tricia’s boyfriend, the now wealthy Cunningham Mine owner. Emily could care less about him being rich, but this shows that his interest in her cousin isn’t just for Shaw’s money. Colleen O’Hara and Emily Banks meeting at the grove near the church to practice some of the new druid spells that they learned. Cathleen O’Hara twins would opt to sleep late, except for the fact that her five younger siblings do not allow her to. Once Ginnie has finished up her studying she heads downstairs at the El Parador for some breakfast. She tells Dorita "Ma’am Kate said that we can finally hire a cook! Find me one!” Dorita assures her that she will find them a good cook. Ginnie is pleased by that news and heads out with a huge smile on her face. Ginnie meets Colleen, Cathleen and Emily at the Lucky Lady, as the regular wait staff has been given the afternoon off since the kids were available to wait on the lunch crowd, a job they have continued to do when available since the poker tournament last June. There are now eighteen stagecoaches a week, a daily run to and from Wilcox, a run to and from Tombstone each weekday, two runs between Tombstone on weekends, and twice a week eastbound stage between Tombstone and El Paso, Texas, as well as two westbound stages heading the other direction. Three stages have come to town today, the Tombstone stage, the Wilcox stage, and the westbound El Paso to Tombstone stage. Ginnie always make sure that somebody from the Lucky Lady Dance Hall and Saloon is waiting to greet every stagecoach that arrives in town, handing out a flyer to the Lucky Lady with a discount on their first drink or meal. Instead of Jeff Mills or Thom greeting the stages today an enthusiastic Ginnie does the job herself, managing to convince a number of people to visit. Later that day she notices that one of the El Paso to Tombstone patrons had left behind a newspaper, one that she does not normally see. Being something new to read Ginnie sits down with a cup of lemonade and plate of cookies to read what it has to say. It is not much of a newspaper, only four pages, and titled “The Dead Mule Gazette”. It has an elaborate letterhead reading “The Dead Mule Weekly Gazette, Dead Mule, New Mexico Territory, Frank Washbuck Editor”. Ginnie vaguely recalls a reporter named Frank Washbuck attended the poker tournament last June. Washbuck was a big, bald barrel-chested man with a handlebar mustache. She has no idea exactly where Dead Mule, New Mexico is but assumes it is somewhere along the stagecoach route, probably a stage stop for the horses to be swapped out. Most of the stories concern Deming, New Mexico, which she thinks is due east. To satisfy her immediate need to know she heads over to the Wells Fargo office to consult their map, verifiying that Deming is approximately 100 miles east, with the smaller community of Dead Mule around 75 miles east of Promise City. Heading back to the Lucky Lady and refilling her milk glass and cookie plate, she continues reading the paper. There is a nasty editorial that criticizes Sheriff Earnest Johnson of Dead Mule, saying that he is a coward, completely useless, will not do his job and lets Vigilantes run roughshod over the town. “So it’s the same as here?” Ginnie comments out loud to herself. The final story that her eyes set upon, in the middle of page four, makes her heart skip a beat. It mentions that a man by the name of Antonio Mendoza has arrived in town seeking Dutch Jack, a prospector in the area, and accusing Dutch Jack of stealing a precious family heirloom of the Mendoza’s, namely a map. As the last surviving Mendoza he wishes to get this map back, stating that it was made by his ancestor of his named Jaun Phillipe Sebastian Mendoza. Ginnie recognizes that name and charges out of the saloon and back to Manuel Gonzales’s library to confirm what she suspects. [/QUOTE]
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