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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 4416825" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter Four, “Silver Jake Cooke…..Chaperone?”, Thursday, November 23, 1882</strong></p><p></p><p>Kate and Ginnie head over to the Silver Palace, a tavern that they both usually avoid. Jake is also surprised to see them enter. Before he can even say ‘Hello” Ginnie blurts out “Jake, we’re going on a field trip. You’re the chaperone. Get your stuff.” “Heh?” he replies. Ginnie gestures to Kate and says, “She won’t let me go without you. I don’t have a choice. Get your stuff, and pack heavy.” A confused Jacob Cooke asks for an explanation. </p><p></p><p>They find a private room over at the schoolhouse where Kate quickly fills him in, him recalling some of his prior conversations with Manuel Gonzales. Kate emphasizes how it is imperative that the sword be retrieved as quickly as possible. Jake appears disinterested until they also mention that the map leads to a gold mine. </p><p></p><p>Ginnie says, “Yes, apparently Coronado’s sword is also surrounded by all of his treasure. And if we find all of that too then it’s a good thing, but it’s not the main objective! We have to find the map before the map get disappeared, because this Dutch guy, who may not really be Dutch, but that is where the map is but that other guy who says that he owns it…..”</p><p></p><p>Kate interrupts saying, “I would go myself but..” Ginnie exlaims, “You’re not going any where! I ain’t birthing no babies.” Jake asks, “Is Ginnie planning to go even if none of us do?” “I don’t think anything could stop her. At a minimum I would be spending the next four weeks of my life doing everything I can to make sure that she doesn’t run off,” Kate states. Ginnie exclaims, “We don’t have a choice. This has to happen and it has to happen now.” Jake states, “We always have choices.” Ginnie says, “I don’t, Gonzales needs this. It has to happen now!”</p><p></p><p>Kate tells Ginnie, “You can’t go by yourself.” Ginnie says, “I’m not going by myself.” So who exactly is going? And we’re trying to find a map?” Jake asks. Ginnie says, “Yes, a map that will lead us to large amounts of treasure, gold, and hopefully the sword.” Jake repeats “Who else is going?” Ginnie says, “The twins, Emily, and the new kid.” A long pause follows. </p><p></p><p>With a little more coaxing Jake very reluctantly agrees to go saying, “Fine, I’ll bring them there I’ll bring them back.” “I would appreciate it,” Kate replies. Jake says, “But I doubt that anybody will buy into the fact that they are going on a school field trip with me?”. Kate says, “They’ve gone on overnight field trips before with Mr. Gonzales and Mrs. Jaminez, it’s not that unusual.” Jake replies, “I a professional gambler who run’s the Silver Palace, that’s not exactly school teacher type of material. What is Professor Jake a teacher of?” “Probability and statistics,” is the reply. </p><p></p><p>They move on with the planning. They decide to take horses and both of the buggies, each buggy will hold two people. It is decided that Cathleen, Colleen, Ginnie and Morgan will ride in the buggies. Jake and Emily will each ride on their own horse. They look at the maps and realize that the route has them go through the Chirachua Mountains, past the deteriorated wild town of Galeyville, and then across barren desert lands of southwestern Mexico. Jake suggests that riding anywhere near Galeyville with a group of innocent teenage girls would not be a wise thing, but since that option can’t be avoided, suggests heading past that town in the wee hours of the morning. That way most if not all of the town residents will be sleeping. They will therefore set off in the middle of the night.</p><p></p><p>Ginnie and Morgan head over to find the newspaperman Chumbley to find out what he might know about this Dead Mule Gazette. They arrive at the offices of the Promise City Mirror, which has now become a very lucrative newspaper, now coming out every third day and being twelve or sixteen pages in length. Morgan has actually been working for Chumbley, writing miscellaneous stories that the primary reporter Angelica Young had no interest in. Morgan also writes most stories regarding mining given that is his father’s profession which he knows of. </p><p></p><p>They approach the over-energetic halfling publisher, a jovial man who usually doesn’t bother with putting pauses between his sentences or paragraphs while he speaks. Ginnie starts off by flattering Chumbley about him being a great source of information. She show’s him the copy of the Dead Mule Gazette, finding that he has a very negative opinion of it. She asks him if he is familiar with the listed publisher Frank Washbuck, adding “If I remember him correctly from the poker tournament he looked like a bare-knuckles fighter.”</p><p></p><p>Chumbley states with a voice of distaste, “Well, he’s not.” “You don’t like him?” Ginnie asks. He replies, “No, I don’t like him, not at all, he’s a Republican!” Ginnie comments “And that’s bad because…” Chumbley states, “Republican slant on his newspaper. That thing is a cheap rag, anything that the Republican Party wants he thinks is the greatest thing since sliced bread.” Ginnie says, “So this Sheriff that he apparently hates in the editorial would probably be a good buy then?”</p><p></p><p>Chumbley says, “Maybe, maybe not. This Ernest Johnson guy, that’s not so much a Republican vs. Democrat thing but a Union vs. Confederate thing. Washbuck was with the Union Army while Sheriff Johnson and most of the town of Dead Mule are ex-Confederates. And Washbuck hates them.” Morgan asks, “If that’s so then how can the paper be a viable enterprise?”</p><p></p><p>Chumbley says, “Because of the town of Deming, New Mexico, around fifteen miles from Dead Mule and the next stagecoach stop up. Deming, New Mexico is a much bigger community. The Union Pacific Railroad put a repair depot there, making it the end of the railroad line at present. When they expand the railroad lines west to Arizona and south to Mexico the town will become even bigger, as the Acheson, Topica and Santa Fe Railroad also plans to connect to it given the repair depot. With both railroads now going there the town’s population has grown to ten times what it had been just two years ago. </p><p></p><p>And Deming’s only newspaper has a Democrat slant to it!” “You know this paper?” Ginnie asks. Chumbley says, “Absolutely, a friend of mine and card-carrying Democrat publishes it. That would normally be enough to keep a town happy, having a great newspaper. But ten miles north of Deming is a major United States Army Fort, biggest one in southwestern New Mexico, and most of those army folks are Republicans. So Frank Washbuck is able to put out a paper in this Podunk little town with ten buildings because there are enough Republicans who want to buy it.”</p><p></p><p>Ginnie asks, “How would you like to try to scoop him?” Chumbley replies, “I scoop him all the time. His paper never breaks any stories. This town is where things are happening, not that little town in the middle of nowhere.” Ginnie says, “We think something big may be happening there. We’re thinking of going on a field trip to find out.” “Why?” Chumbley asks, looking excited at the prospect of something interesting and new. </p><p></p><p>Ginnie does some fancy footwork in the conversation next to continue to keep the halfling’s curiosity up while not providing actual information. The conversation turns back to the Dead Mule newspaperman. Chumbley adds that Washbuck keeps a bear as a pet, a great big one, which is the main reason that Washbuck is still alive even though all of his neighbors hate him. Morgan asks, “Is he nice to the bear?” Chumbley replies, “Of course he is, it’s his only friend in town.” </p><p></p><p> Ginnie asks more about the small New Mexico town. Chumbley says, “It’s my understanding that there’s nothing there. It wouldn’t even exist it if wasn’t a Wells Fargo Stagecoach stop. If you don’t believe me go ask the guys over at Wells Fargo.” “That’s it?” Ginnie asks. Chumbley states, “Yeah, and since Galeyville is now filled with bandits and thieves Wells Fargo doesn’t go there anymore, so Dead Mule is the only place with restaurants and hotel rooms between Promise City and Deming.” </p><p></p><p>Chumbley is convinced to pay Morgan for the trip, that he will be on assignment for the Promise City Mirror. The kids head out. He is excited about the reporting job until Ginnie explains, “You’re going to have to edit your stories, there will be things that we’ll be doing on this trip that you can’t write about.” Morgan is confused about that comment. Ginnie says, “We’ll explain it all later.” </p><p></p><p>The kids get back together. Emily comments about being happy to be away from school. Ginnie points out the number of educational opportunities that will be available on the trip, citing flora, fauna and astronomy as things they can learn along the way. Cathleen says, “Ginnie, you are insane! We’re going to have fun on this trip, not turn it into more schooling!” </p><p></p><p>Emily says, “At least it will get me out of the house. My Uncle and my cousin Ellen are fighting constantly these days.” “Because she’s expecting?” Ginnie asks. Emily nods yes and says, “And she won’t name the father. Uncle’s afraid the father will turn out to be someone just out to worm his way into the family money, says if it was anybody respectable he’d have done the honorable thing by this point.” </p><p></p><p>Ginnie pulls Emily aside and says, “Do you know who the father is?” Emily replies, “I think so, but I’m not saying.” Ginnie says, “Well, Mayor Shaw isn’t going to let his daughter and grandchild starve. He’ll support them whether the guy is around or not. Ginnie decides to head back to Gonzales’s laboratory to pack up a number of interesting experiments that she has been working on that might come in handy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 4416825, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter Four, “Silver Jake Cooke…..Chaperone?”, Thursday, November 23, 1882[/B] Kate and Ginnie head over to the Silver Palace, a tavern that they both usually avoid. Jake is also surprised to see them enter. Before he can even say ‘Hello” Ginnie blurts out “Jake, we’re going on a field trip. You’re the chaperone. Get your stuff.” “Heh?” he replies. Ginnie gestures to Kate and says, “She won’t let me go without you. I don’t have a choice. Get your stuff, and pack heavy.” A confused Jacob Cooke asks for an explanation. They find a private room over at the schoolhouse where Kate quickly fills him in, him recalling some of his prior conversations with Manuel Gonzales. Kate emphasizes how it is imperative that the sword be retrieved as quickly as possible. Jake appears disinterested until they also mention that the map leads to a gold mine. Ginnie says, “Yes, apparently Coronado’s sword is also surrounded by all of his treasure. And if we find all of that too then it’s a good thing, but it’s not the main objective! We have to find the map before the map get disappeared, because this Dutch guy, who may not really be Dutch, but that is where the map is but that other guy who says that he owns it…..” Kate interrupts saying, “I would go myself but..” Ginnie exlaims, “You’re not going any where! I ain’t birthing no babies.” Jake asks, “Is Ginnie planning to go even if none of us do?” “I don’t think anything could stop her. At a minimum I would be spending the next four weeks of my life doing everything I can to make sure that she doesn’t run off,” Kate states. Ginnie exclaims, “We don’t have a choice. This has to happen and it has to happen now.” Jake states, “We always have choices.” Ginnie says, “I don’t, Gonzales needs this. It has to happen now!” Kate tells Ginnie, “You can’t go by yourself.” Ginnie says, “I’m not going by myself.” So who exactly is going? And we’re trying to find a map?” Jake asks. Ginnie says, “Yes, a map that will lead us to large amounts of treasure, gold, and hopefully the sword.” Jake repeats “Who else is going?” Ginnie says, “The twins, Emily, and the new kid.” A long pause follows. With a little more coaxing Jake very reluctantly agrees to go saying, “Fine, I’ll bring them there I’ll bring them back.” “I would appreciate it,” Kate replies. Jake says, “But I doubt that anybody will buy into the fact that they are going on a school field trip with me?”. Kate says, “They’ve gone on overnight field trips before with Mr. Gonzales and Mrs. Jaminez, it’s not that unusual.” Jake replies, “I a professional gambler who run’s the Silver Palace, that’s not exactly school teacher type of material. What is Professor Jake a teacher of?” “Probability and statistics,” is the reply. They move on with the planning. They decide to take horses and both of the buggies, each buggy will hold two people. It is decided that Cathleen, Colleen, Ginnie and Morgan will ride in the buggies. Jake and Emily will each ride on their own horse. They look at the maps and realize that the route has them go through the Chirachua Mountains, past the deteriorated wild town of Galeyville, and then across barren desert lands of southwestern Mexico. Jake suggests that riding anywhere near Galeyville with a group of innocent teenage girls would not be a wise thing, but since that option can’t be avoided, suggests heading past that town in the wee hours of the morning. That way most if not all of the town residents will be sleeping. They will therefore set off in the middle of the night. Ginnie and Morgan head over to find the newspaperman Chumbley to find out what he might know about this Dead Mule Gazette. They arrive at the offices of the Promise City Mirror, which has now become a very lucrative newspaper, now coming out every third day and being twelve or sixteen pages in length. Morgan has actually been working for Chumbley, writing miscellaneous stories that the primary reporter Angelica Young had no interest in. Morgan also writes most stories regarding mining given that is his father’s profession which he knows of. They approach the over-energetic halfling publisher, a jovial man who usually doesn’t bother with putting pauses between his sentences or paragraphs while he speaks. Ginnie starts off by flattering Chumbley about him being a great source of information. She show’s him the copy of the Dead Mule Gazette, finding that he has a very negative opinion of it. She asks him if he is familiar with the listed publisher Frank Washbuck, adding “If I remember him correctly from the poker tournament he looked like a bare-knuckles fighter.” Chumbley states with a voice of distaste, “Well, he’s not.” “You don’t like him?” Ginnie asks. He replies, “No, I don’t like him, not at all, he’s a Republican!” Ginnie comments “And that’s bad because…” Chumbley states, “Republican slant on his newspaper. That thing is a cheap rag, anything that the Republican Party wants he thinks is the greatest thing since sliced bread.” Ginnie says, “So this Sheriff that he apparently hates in the editorial would probably be a good buy then?” Chumbley says, “Maybe, maybe not. This Ernest Johnson guy, that’s not so much a Republican vs. Democrat thing but a Union vs. Confederate thing. Washbuck was with the Union Army while Sheriff Johnson and most of the town of Dead Mule are ex-Confederates. And Washbuck hates them.” Morgan asks, “If that’s so then how can the paper be a viable enterprise?” Chumbley says, “Because of the town of Deming, New Mexico, around fifteen miles from Dead Mule and the next stagecoach stop up. Deming, New Mexico is a much bigger community. The Union Pacific Railroad put a repair depot there, making it the end of the railroad line at present. When they expand the railroad lines west to Arizona and south to Mexico the town will become even bigger, as the Acheson, Topica and Santa Fe Railroad also plans to connect to it given the repair depot. With both railroads now going there the town’s population has grown to ten times what it had been just two years ago. And Deming’s only newspaper has a Democrat slant to it!” “You know this paper?” Ginnie asks. Chumbley says, “Absolutely, a friend of mine and card-carrying Democrat publishes it. That would normally be enough to keep a town happy, having a great newspaper. But ten miles north of Deming is a major United States Army Fort, biggest one in southwestern New Mexico, and most of those army folks are Republicans. So Frank Washbuck is able to put out a paper in this Podunk little town with ten buildings because there are enough Republicans who want to buy it.” Ginnie asks, “How would you like to try to scoop him?” Chumbley replies, “I scoop him all the time. His paper never breaks any stories. This town is where things are happening, not that little town in the middle of nowhere.” Ginnie says, “We think something big may be happening there. We’re thinking of going on a field trip to find out.” “Why?” Chumbley asks, looking excited at the prospect of something interesting and new. Ginnie does some fancy footwork in the conversation next to continue to keep the halfling’s curiosity up while not providing actual information. The conversation turns back to the Dead Mule newspaperman. Chumbley adds that Washbuck keeps a bear as a pet, a great big one, which is the main reason that Washbuck is still alive even though all of his neighbors hate him. Morgan asks, “Is he nice to the bear?” Chumbley replies, “Of course he is, it’s his only friend in town.” Ginnie asks more about the small New Mexico town. Chumbley says, “It’s my understanding that there’s nothing there. It wouldn’t even exist it if wasn’t a Wells Fargo Stagecoach stop. If you don’t believe me go ask the guys over at Wells Fargo.” “That’s it?” Ginnie asks. Chumbley states, “Yeah, and since Galeyville is now filled with bandits and thieves Wells Fargo doesn’t go there anymore, so Dead Mule is the only place with restaurants and hotel rooms between Promise City and Deming.” Chumbley is convinced to pay Morgan for the trip, that he will be on assignment for the Promise City Mirror. The kids head out. He is excited about the reporting job until Ginnie explains, “You’re going to have to edit your stories, there will be things that we’ll be doing on this trip that you can’t write about.” Morgan is confused about that comment. Ginnie says, “We’ll explain it all later.” The kids get back together. Emily comments about being happy to be away from school. Ginnie points out the number of educational opportunities that will be available on the trip, citing flora, fauna and astronomy as things they can learn along the way. Cathleen says, “Ginnie, you are insane! We’re going to have fun on this trip, not turn it into more schooling!” Emily says, “At least it will get me out of the house. My Uncle and my cousin Ellen are fighting constantly these days.” “Because she’s expecting?” Ginnie asks. Emily nods yes and says, “And she won’t name the father. Uncle’s afraid the father will turn out to be someone just out to worm his way into the family money, says if it was anybody respectable he’d have done the honorable thing by this point.” Ginnie pulls Emily aside and says, “Do you know who the father is?” Emily replies, “I think so, but I’m not saying.” Ginnie says, “Well, Mayor Shaw isn’t going to let his daughter and grandchild starve. He’ll support them whether the guy is around or not. Ginnie decides to head back to Gonzales’s laboratory to pack up a number of interesting experiments that she has been working on that might come in handy. [/QUOTE]
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