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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1948460" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter 73, “Another night at the Lone Star”, Monday, January 9th, 1882:</strong></p><p></p><p>Back at the Palace Saloon, Ruby shakes off the bouncer McCoy's arm before it gets to her and she walks out. She makes a quick stop back at the Marshall's office and let's Job know that Suzie Foreman is now staying at the Palace Saloon. She heads back to the Cantina again. She decides to have a drink downstairs and wait to see if anyone shows up before its time to head over to the Lone Star.</p><p></p><p>Chester comes back into the El Parador accompanied by Riley and they sit down with Ruby. Chester says "Look who I found. He was just wandering around the streets." Riley says "Yeah, I've been busy. I went out into the desert to think and lost track of the time. The strange thing is, meeting you guys has made me more confused than ever. But I didn't have any dreams at all last night. I still don't understand what your Indian friend said, about the centaur being dead and not dead. Back in Kansas they'd lock people up in a sanitarium for talk like that."</p><p></p><p>Ruby says, "Well around here they lock people up for claiming they dreamed about them even though they never met them... I'm just kidding! I think you need a drink." She waves over Dorita. "If its any consolation Nanuet is a good man and he'll have some kind of answer come morning, I'm sure of it." She turns to Dorita. "We're going to need three whiskey's please." She smiles to herself. Whiskey is not going to taste nearly as nice as Jake's bourbon.</p><p></p><p>They sit for a while drinking the whiskey and not talking much. Estaban Fuente starts playing some slow classical guitar tunes while Sanoma continues to serve food to the various patrons. </p><p></p><p>Chester’s ears perk up at the sound of horses outside when he hears a distinctive sound that he has not heard since leaving the United States Army. When the Army moved out west it had among its troops several thousand ex-slave ogres and half-ogres, whose physical size was too burdensome for regular cavalry horses. A special type of horse was bred to accommodate these soldiers that was a cross between the Clydesdale and Morgan breeds but with aspects of other animals, most notably the buffalo, camel and rhinoceros, melded in via the use of powerful clerical magics. The result was a very distinctive animal, unimaginatively called an Ogremount. </p><p></p><p>The species mostly resembles an oversized horse but with a stronger hide, dark curly hair covering its body, a medium sized horn on its snout, small horns behind the ears and a very unique bellow. The breed has greater stamina than a regular horse but has proven rather difficult to train and discipline. Ogremounts are usually not stabled with regular horses as they will very aggressively attempt to mate with horses (even if gelded) although genetically they are only capable of producing offspring with another Ogremount. So Chester realizes that if an Ogremount is outside that means that soldiers are in Promise City.</p><p></p><p>Ruby finishes her whiskey. "Gentlemen, I hope you'll excuse me. I had a rather exhausting afternoon and I'd like a short rest before we head to the Lone Star. If anyone needs me I'll be napping." She smiles at them, goes up to her room and hopes to get some rest.</p><p></p><p>A short while late Jake arrives back too. They chat and decide to give Ruby a while longer to nap, with Katherine heads upstairs to wake her at around a quarter-till-eight. Chatting with the gentlemen helps to bring Katherine's spirits back up after her talk with the Whipples. Quarter-of-eight comes eventually and she goes up and knocks on Ruby's door. "It's almost time to leave," she calls. "Are you awake?"</p><p></p><p>Chatting with the gentlemen helps to bring Katherine's spirits back up after her talk with the Whipples. Quarter-of-eight comes eventually and she goes up and knocks on Ruby's door. "It's almost time to leave," she calls. "Are you awake?" "No, I'm not awake," comes the sleepy reply. "But you can come in Kate." Ruby drags herself out of bed. Leaning magic was tiring! She gets dressed for the Lone Star as she tries to wake herself up. "How did it go with the Whipples?"</p><p></p><p>"They're both in pretty bad shape. Mr. Whipple wants to wait and talk to his father, but I'm fairly certain he won't want them to change anything. Neither of them knows what to do. I think they both need a little more time to think and pull themselves together. Maggie said they already tried to get a divorce. Judge Isby just told Tom to stop fooling around and they should work out their differences. So I made another suggestion." </p><p></p><p>Kate explains about buying part of the Lone Star to Ruby, and why she thinks it might work. "I only spoke for myself, of course," she finished. "What do you think?" Ruby answers, "I think you're absolutely nuts." And then there was silence as Kate looks at her quizzically. Ruby continues, “Why would anyone think that I was honest? Or Jake? We're only here a week!" She pauses, trying to cover her slight slip, "Or you for that matter. I think it is possible that the idea could work but I'm just not sure and it would need the Whipples to want to do it. Why would I want to help them anyway? They don't pay us enough."</p><p></p><p>Kate exclaims, "Of course not. Why should we help people if they won't pay us for it? How much do I owe you?" Kate looked at Ruby for a moment and shook her head. "I'll see you downstairs." She slipped quickly out the door and went back down to the gentlemen. Ruby rolls her eyes and starts running after Katherine. She catches up with her downstairs. </p><p></p><p>"Kate! I'm not saying not to help them. But why is it our problem? We're just employees of theirs and as far as I can tell we're made them more successful than they were before, no? Isn't that helping them? I'm not sure they appreciate us enough is all. As for buying their business, well, I don't know anything about that kind of stuff. Better to ask Jake about that." She lowers her voice, almost speaking to herself, "Oh, and that would require me to stick around..." Ruby becomes quiet for a moment. </p><p></p><p>Then she continues to whisper, "I think Jake could help with the whole divorce thing, you know... he did tell us he was good at paperwork..." Kate says, "You're right, it isn't your problem. It was my presence that brought it all to a head. They were fine until.... I'll speak to Jake later, but I don't think anything will happen until Wednesday at least. Can we just forget this for now, please? I'll be able to think more clearly in the morning."</p><p></p><p>Ruby answers, "Kate you're a nice person. Don't feel bad, none of this is your fault. I'm sure it'll all work out. But yeah we can forget it for now." Ruby realized she wasn't doing a good job of trying to be different. "Well, it's time for work, we'd better get going or we'll be late."</p><p></p><p>Riley opts out of going to the Lone Star but Chester decides to join Jake, Ruby and Katherine. The four arrive at 8:00 O'clock. Tony's game has already started and Jake's players start to gather at his table once he arrives. Maggie offers Katherine the chance to accompany Ruby first. "Of course, Maggie." Kate sits down at the piano and set the tip cup on top. She'd had time to think about what Ruby said on the walk over, and once she'd let go of her anger, she could see where Ruby was coming from. It had nothing to do with Katherine or the Whipples. Ruby was still struggling with the fear of becoming attached to one place, and perhaps more, to people. </p><p></p><p>Kate took a deep breath, smiled at Ruby, and sat down at the piano to play. Ruby will, as usual, keep her eye on Kate and watch for cheating at Jake's table. But different tonight is her singing. Tonight she sings her songs with a bit more passion than usual.</p><p></p><p>Jake welcomes the players and goes to get some fresh cards. He has greetings for those he knows and introduces new folks around the table. "Shall we get started, we all know why you're here." He gives them a warm smile and begins the ritual of the shuffle and deal. Jake has six players, his two semi-regulars of Al Brower and Neil Cassidy, plus two Monday night regulars who were at Job's table with Jake the previous Monday - the brickyard owner Travis Calhoun and his employee Jeremiah Peck. </p><p></p><p>There are also two new player at the table. Al introduces one as Alton Boyd, the co-owner of Boyds Cigar Store around the corner on Freemont Street. The other man introduces himself as Cuffee Mann and indicates that he is a ranch hand at the Bar W Ranch, twenty miles due west of Promise City. He is in town on a supply run and renting the room upstairs for the night so decided to try his hand at poker. </p><p></p><p>Just as the game gets started the Saloon is interrupted by the halfling Chumbley who comes insdie hawking his papers and yelling out "Tombstone Epitaph, Promise City Edition. Johnny Ringo Killed. Shot by Deadeye Douglas. Read all about it, only five cents!"</p><p></p><p>Kate was thankful she was facing the wall when Chumbley came in. She didn't know who Johnny Ringo was, but she knew how Deadeye Douglas' name got in the news. Apparently Billy Claibourne still believed Jake was Deadeye Douglas, and he was spreading the word. And maybe a description of Jake, Nanuet, Ruby, and herself to go with it. </p><p></p><p>Chumbley was moving around the room hawking his papers. Kate kept her left hand playing and waved to him quickly with her right. "I'd like one of those please," she said when he came over. "Hold on a moment." Kate played for another minute or so through the rest of the song, then dug into her small purse for a nickel. "Thank you," she smiled as she dropped it in his hand. She put the paper down next to her and went back to playing.</p><p></p><p>Chumbley sells a dozen papers and then leaves. Ruby finishes up her first set and Maggie takes over for Katherine at the piano, playing some rather simple saloon songs. Ruby and Katherine take a moment to read over the paper before Ruby joins Chester at a table near the stage while Katherine resumes her waitress job. </p><p></p><p>The paper's lead story is about Ringo being killed by Douglas, but does not have many details other than the fact that Douglas was spotted in Tombstone on Sunday afternoon. Most of Page Two concerns the elimination of the Cowboy Gang, having pretty much the same information as the prior day's Promise City Herald. There is one side story about Sheriff Behan searching the McLaury Ranch and finding some rustled animals including three army mules whose brands of U.S. had been poorly changed to read D.8. There is a story on the back page about the Lone Star altercation between Job Kane and Marvin Keach. It quotes Suzie Foreman, who blames Kane for the entire incident. The overwhelming remainder of the paper is filled with advertisements for various businesses in town including a full page ad for the Alhambra Saloon. </p><p></p><p>At 9:00 PM Ruby takes to the stage again accompanied by Katherine again and belts out some very passionate and moving tunes, capturing the attention of the patrons everywhere in the room except for Jake's table, where the card game has gotten hot. </p><p></p><p>Jake has an excellent night for the first two hours, winning nearly every hand. He estimates that he is somewhere between $ 130 and $ 140 ahead for the night at this point. He also notes that while Boyd is a terrible card player he and his business partner Brower have worked out some sort of a system communicated by odd or even bet amounts. As a result Browner's luck has increased as the night has worn on and took over $ 100 in the last hand played. </p><p></p><p>Unfortunatley Jake and Brower's winnings have been at the expense of Calhoun and Cassidy, the two men that Tom Whipple is seeking to purchase building supplies from. Peck has folded to keep from losing, apparently having very little money to play. Mann likewise has been playing it carefully since betting over $ 50 on a hand where he held a flush only to be beaten out by both Jake and Brower. When Maggie indicated that Ruby could take a break she just nodded "No" and kept going. As it got close to 10:00 PM Maggie approaches Katherine and tries to convince her that they both of them to take a break. </p><p></p><p>The entire Saloon is then distracted by the abrupt arrival of five U.S. Army soldiers wearing Cavalry insignia on their uniforms who enter the Saloon. Three are human, one is a half-ogre and another is an ogre. Chester has a look of recognition on his face that Jake catches from across the room. Chester does not know the four enlisted men but recognizes the human officer leading this group and wearing the rank of Lieutenant as Oscar Gamble who held the rank of Sergeant back when Chester had the ill fortune of serving under him. </p><p></p><p>The five march directly up to the bar. Of the four enlisted, one human is a Sergeant, the half-ogre is a Corporal and the other two are Privates. Lieutenant Gamble had glanced around the room as he marched forward but did not appear to have recognized Chester. Chester attempts to eavesdrop on the conversation between Gamble and Whipple and hears the Army Lieutenant say the word "stagecoach". Since the soldiers all still have their backs to him he decides that he'd rather not have a reunion with his former superior so puts a dollar on the table to pay for his drinks and bids the others goodnight.</p><p></p><p>"This is a good time to have a short break folks." Jake announces. "Refresh your selves, we can pickup again in twenty minutes." Jake takes the opportunity to refresh himself and then searches for someone who bought a copy of Chumbley’s newspaper. Right after she reads the paper, she looks up to Jake, who is apparently on a break. She walks over to him and takes his arm. "Got a moment?" </p><p></p><p>She walks him away from the crowd of people, into a quiet corner. "Done any reading lately?" She shows him the paper and the reference to Deadeye Douglas being seen in Tombstone on Sunday. "Well I'll be..." Says Jake with a little grin, "Deadeye Douglas was in Tombstone the same time we were."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 1948460, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter 73, “Another night at the Lone Star”, Monday, January 9th, 1882:[/B] Back at the Palace Saloon, Ruby shakes off the bouncer McCoy's arm before it gets to her and she walks out. She makes a quick stop back at the Marshall's office and let's Job know that Suzie Foreman is now staying at the Palace Saloon. She heads back to the Cantina again. She decides to have a drink downstairs and wait to see if anyone shows up before its time to head over to the Lone Star. Chester comes back into the El Parador accompanied by Riley and they sit down with Ruby. Chester says "Look who I found. He was just wandering around the streets." Riley says "Yeah, I've been busy. I went out into the desert to think and lost track of the time. The strange thing is, meeting you guys has made me more confused than ever. But I didn't have any dreams at all last night. I still don't understand what your Indian friend said, about the centaur being dead and not dead. Back in Kansas they'd lock people up in a sanitarium for talk like that." Ruby says, "Well around here they lock people up for claiming they dreamed about them even though they never met them... I'm just kidding! I think you need a drink." She waves over Dorita. "If its any consolation Nanuet is a good man and he'll have some kind of answer come morning, I'm sure of it." She turns to Dorita. "We're going to need three whiskey's please." She smiles to herself. Whiskey is not going to taste nearly as nice as Jake's bourbon. They sit for a while drinking the whiskey and not talking much. Estaban Fuente starts playing some slow classical guitar tunes while Sanoma continues to serve food to the various patrons. Chester’s ears perk up at the sound of horses outside when he hears a distinctive sound that he has not heard since leaving the United States Army. When the Army moved out west it had among its troops several thousand ex-slave ogres and half-ogres, whose physical size was too burdensome for regular cavalry horses. A special type of horse was bred to accommodate these soldiers that was a cross between the Clydesdale and Morgan breeds but with aspects of other animals, most notably the buffalo, camel and rhinoceros, melded in via the use of powerful clerical magics. The result was a very distinctive animal, unimaginatively called an Ogremount. The species mostly resembles an oversized horse but with a stronger hide, dark curly hair covering its body, a medium sized horn on its snout, small horns behind the ears and a very unique bellow. The breed has greater stamina than a regular horse but has proven rather difficult to train and discipline. Ogremounts are usually not stabled with regular horses as they will very aggressively attempt to mate with horses (even if gelded) although genetically they are only capable of producing offspring with another Ogremount. So Chester realizes that if an Ogremount is outside that means that soldiers are in Promise City. Ruby finishes her whiskey. "Gentlemen, I hope you'll excuse me. I had a rather exhausting afternoon and I'd like a short rest before we head to the Lone Star. If anyone needs me I'll be napping." She smiles at them, goes up to her room and hopes to get some rest. A short while late Jake arrives back too. They chat and decide to give Ruby a while longer to nap, with Katherine heads upstairs to wake her at around a quarter-till-eight. Chatting with the gentlemen helps to bring Katherine's spirits back up after her talk with the Whipples. Quarter-of-eight comes eventually and she goes up and knocks on Ruby's door. "It's almost time to leave," she calls. "Are you awake?" Chatting with the gentlemen helps to bring Katherine's spirits back up after her talk with the Whipples. Quarter-of-eight comes eventually and she goes up and knocks on Ruby's door. "It's almost time to leave," she calls. "Are you awake?" "No, I'm not awake," comes the sleepy reply. "But you can come in Kate." Ruby drags herself out of bed. Leaning magic was tiring! She gets dressed for the Lone Star as she tries to wake herself up. "How did it go with the Whipples?" "They're both in pretty bad shape. Mr. Whipple wants to wait and talk to his father, but I'm fairly certain he won't want them to change anything. Neither of them knows what to do. I think they both need a little more time to think and pull themselves together. Maggie said they already tried to get a divorce. Judge Isby just told Tom to stop fooling around and they should work out their differences. So I made another suggestion." Kate explains about buying part of the Lone Star to Ruby, and why she thinks it might work. "I only spoke for myself, of course," she finished. "What do you think?" Ruby answers, "I think you're absolutely nuts." And then there was silence as Kate looks at her quizzically. Ruby continues, “Why would anyone think that I was honest? Or Jake? We're only here a week!" She pauses, trying to cover her slight slip, "Or you for that matter. I think it is possible that the idea could work but I'm just not sure and it would need the Whipples to want to do it. Why would I want to help them anyway? They don't pay us enough." Kate exclaims, "Of course not. Why should we help people if they won't pay us for it? How much do I owe you?" Kate looked at Ruby for a moment and shook her head. "I'll see you downstairs." She slipped quickly out the door and went back down to the gentlemen. Ruby rolls her eyes and starts running after Katherine. She catches up with her downstairs. "Kate! I'm not saying not to help them. But why is it our problem? We're just employees of theirs and as far as I can tell we're made them more successful than they were before, no? Isn't that helping them? I'm not sure they appreciate us enough is all. As for buying their business, well, I don't know anything about that kind of stuff. Better to ask Jake about that." She lowers her voice, almost speaking to herself, "Oh, and that would require me to stick around..." Ruby becomes quiet for a moment. Then she continues to whisper, "I think Jake could help with the whole divorce thing, you know... he did tell us he was good at paperwork..." Kate says, "You're right, it isn't your problem. It was my presence that brought it all to a head. They were fine until.... I'll speak to Jake later, but I don't think anything will happen until Wednesday at least. Can we just forget this for now, please? I'll be able to think more clearly in the morning." Ruby answers, "Kate you're a nice person. Don't feel bad, none of this is your fault. I'm sure it'll all work out. But yeah we can forget it for now." Ruby realized she wasn't doing a good job of trying to be different. "Well, it's time for work, we'd better get going or we'll be late." Riley opts out of going to the Lone Star but Chester decides to join Jake, Ruby and Katherine. The four arrive at 8:00 O'clock. Tony's game has already started and Jake's players start to gather at his table once he arrives. Maggie offers Katherine the chance to accompany Ruby first. "Of course, Maggie." Kate sits down at the piano and set the tip cup on top. She'd had time to think about what Ruby said on the walk over, and once she'd let go of her anger, she could see where Ruby was coming from. It had nothing to do with Katherine or the Whipples. Ruby was still struggling with the fear of becoming attached to one place, and perhaps more, to people. Kate took a deep breath, smiled at Ruby, and sat down at the piano to play. Ruby will, as usual, keep her eye on Kate and watch for cheating at Jake's table. But different tonight is her singing. Tonight she sings her songs with a bit more passion than usual. Jake welcomes the players and goes to get some fresh cards. He has greetings for those he knows and introduces new folks around the table. "Shall we get started, we all know why you're here." He gives them a warm smile and begins the ritual of the shuffle and deal. Jake has six players, his two semi-regulars of Al Brower and Neil Cassidy, plus two Monday night regulars who were at Job's table with Jake the previous Monday - the brickyard owner Travis Calhoun and his employee Jeremiah Peck. There are also two new player at the table. Al introduces one as Alton Boyd, the co-owner of Boyds Cigar Store around the corner on Freemont Street. The other man introduces himself as Cuffee Mann and indicates that he is a ranch hand at the Bar W Ranch, twenty miles due west of Promise City. He is in town on a supply run and renting the room upstairs for the night so decided to try his hand at poker. Just as the game gets started the Saloon is interrupted by the halfling Chumbley who comes insdie hawking his papers and yelling out "Tombstone Epitaph, Promise City Edition. Johnny Ringo Killed. Shot by Deadeye Douglas. Read all about it, only five cents!" Kate was thankful she was facing the wall when Chumbley came in. She didn't know who Johnny Ringo was, but she knew how Deadeye Douglas' name got in the news. Apparently Billy Claibourne still believed Jake was Deadeye Douglas, and he was spreading the word. And maybe a description of Jake, Nanuet, Ruby, and herself to go with it. Chumbley was moving around the room hawking his papers. Kate kept her left hand playing and waved to him quickly with her right. "I'd like one of those please," she said when he came over. "Hold on a moment." Kate played for another minute or so through the rest of the song, then dug into her small purse for a nickel. "Thank you," she smiled as she dropped it in his hand. She put the paper down next to her and went back to playing. Chumbley sells a dozen papers and then leaves. Ruby finishes up her first set and Maggie takes over for Katherine at the piano, playing some rather simple saloon songs. Ruby and Katherine take a moment to read over the paper before Ruby joins Chester at a table near the stage while Katherine resumes her waitress job. The paper's lead story is about Ringo being killed by Douglas, but does not have many details other than the fact that Douglas was spotted in Tombstone on Sunday afternoon. Most of Page Two concerns the elimination of the Cowboy Gang, having pretty much the same information as the prior day's Promise City Herald. There is one side story about Sheriff Behan searching the McLaury Ranch and finding some rustled animals including three army mules whose brands of U.S. had been poorly changed to read D.8. There is a story on the back page about the Lone Star altercation between Job Kane and Marvin Keach. It quotes Suzie Foreman, who blames Kane for the entire incident. The overwhelming remainder of the paper is filled with advertisements for various businesses in town including a full page ad for the Alhambra Saloon. At 9:00 PM Ruby takes to the stage again accompanied by Katherine again and belts out some very passionate and moving tunes, capturing the attention of the patrons everywhere in the room except for Jake's table, where the card game has gotten hot. Jake has an excellent night for the first two hours, winning nearly every hand. He estimates that he is somewhere between $ 130 and $ 140 ahead for the night at this point. He also notes that while Boyd is a terrible card player he and his business partner Brower have worked out some sort of a system communicated by odd or even bet amounts. As a result Browner's luck has increased as the night has worn on and took over $ 100 in the last hand played. Unfortunatley Jake and Brower's winnings have been at the expense of Calhoun and Cassidy, the two men that Tom Whipple is seeking to purchase building supplies from. Peck has folded to keep from losing, apparently having very little money to play. Mann likewise has been playing it carefully since betting over $ 50 on a hand where he held a flush only to be beaten out by both Jake and Brower. When Maggie indicated that Ruby could take a break she just nodded "No" and kept going. As it got close to 10:00 PM Maggie approaches Katherine and tries to convince her that they both of them to take a break. The entire Saloon is then distracted by the abrupt arrival of five U.S. Army soldiers wearing Cavalry insignia on their uniforms who enter the Saloon. Three are human, one is a half-ogre and another is an ogre. Chester has a look of recognition on his face that Jake catches from across the room. Chester does not know the four enlisted men but recognizes the human officer leading this group and wearing the rank of Lieutenant as Oscar Gamble who held the rank of Sergeant back when Chester had the ill fortune of serving under him. The five march directly up to the bar. Of the four enlisted, one human is a Sergeant, the half-ogre is a Corporal and the other two are Privates. Lieutenant Gamble had glanced around the room as he marched forward but did not appear to have recognized Chester. Chester attempts to eavesdrop on the conversation between Gamble and Whipple and hears the Army Lieutenant say the word "stagecoach". Since the soldiers all still have their backs to him he decides that he'd rather not have a reunion with his former superior so puts a dollar on the table to pay for his drinks and bids the others goodnight. "This is a good time to have a short break folks." Jake announces. "Refresh your selves, we can pickup again in twenty minutes." Jake takes the opportunity to refresh himself and then searches for someone who bought a copy of Chumbley’s newspaper. Right after she reads the paper, she looks up to Jake, who is apparently on a break. She walks over to him and takes his arm. "Got a moment?" She walks him away from the crowd of people, into a quiet corner. "Done any reading lately?" She shows him the paper and the reference to Deadeye Douglas being seen in Tombstone on Sunday. "Well I'll be..." Says Jake with a little grin, "Deadeye Douglas was in Tombstone the same time we were." [/QUOTE]
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