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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 4276721" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter Seventeen, “Escape Plans”, Tuesday, June 13, 1882 – Canon City Colorado</strong></p><p></p><p>At dawn Pinto writes a short note for Rex to deliver for Sally. Sally’s player sarcastically comments, “Yeah, that ain’t getting to me.” “This one might,” Pinto’s player comments. The day guard brings the prisoners their breakfast and collects waste buckets, not speaking to any of the prisoners other than an occasional profane word stated to the male prisoners. He goes off duty mid-afternoon.</p><p></p><p>Rex comes around at 3:00 PM bringing fresh buckets of water. Pinto calls Rex over and slips the note across stating “Give this to Sally.” Rex stashes the note in his pocket, to read it on the stairwell before heading up to the ladies. He usually just drops Pinto‘s notes to Sally into the waste buckets but decides that this one will indeed be delivered.</p><p></p><p>Rex approaches the ladies and says “Good Afternoon.” Sally has been giving a lot of thought as to what to say. She comments in a soft, almost pleading voice “I’ve been thinking about what you said. And if I’m really going to start a new life I can’t do it with a man who doesn’t appreciate my friendships. I mean, even though Pinto may have been the one who led me astray, in his own way he has been good to me and I can’t abandon him to die.” Pinto takes out the note and hands it to her, saying “Read this.” </p><p></p><p>She looks it over. Pamela asks, “Is it from Pinto?” Sally replies, “Yeah. It says ‘Sally, It’s not right for us to die for Deadeye Douglas’s crimes. I was the one who convinced you to join the Gang. I am sorry that I caused all of this, try to forget me, I wish that you would have found an honorable man instead.’” “Is that all?” Pamela asks. “That’s all,” Sally replies. “Wow, that’s pretty big of him don’t you think Sally?” Pamela asks adding “I admire a man who can admit when he’s done wrong.” </p><p></p><p>Rex comments, “You look upset Sally, is everything alright?” She says, “I’m alright. I would have thought that making a clean break would have been a little harder.” Pamela looks at both Sally and Rex when she says, “That just goes to show that Pinto does indeed have honor in him.”</p><p>Sally looks to Rex and says, “See, it’s what I told you about him. Now how can I just go off and let him die?” Pamela adds, “He’s right about it being all Deadeye’s fault. He should be the one facing the rope, not innocent Pinto Joe.” </p><p></p><p>Sally interjects, “Absolutely. Talk about leading people astray, it was all Deadeye’s doing. Pinto, Mongo and I were just peaceful ranchers until he came along.” Pamela adds, “Guilt by association. We were just there when someone else’s fingers were pulling the trigger.” Sally looks at Rex and says, “You don’t suppose there’s a bounty on Deadeye Douglas? “There is,” Rex replies. </p><p></p><p>Pamela says, “I wouldn’t be surprised in Deadeye made his way to California. Wouldn’t it be great to start our careers as bounty hunters by bringing him to justice? What do you think Rex?” Rex says, “He did make quite a few enemies and victims. He’d half to get out Colorado quickly and was heading west according to newspaper accounts. He probably did head that way.”</p><p></p><p>Pamela asks, “If we were going to make a clean break how would we go about it? I mean, this is a prison after all. We’re locked in here with nothing. No shoes even, no way to ride off, no supplies or nothing. We’d be dead within hours.” Rex adds, “We’d have to make sure that nobody got hurt when we did it.” “Well of course,” both women state in unison. Rex says, “Well, what I’m thinking is that if I let Shamus out of his cell he could knock out the other guard before he got a chance to call the other guards. Shamus knows how to do that kind of thing with his bare-knuckles.” “He’s the boxer?” Pamela confirms. Rex says, “Exactly!” The girls concur. </p><p></p><p>Rex continues, “Then, if it were late enough, most of the off-duty guards spend their time at night either sleeping or drinking or whoring in town. There’d only be a few other guards on duty, so we should be able to make our way over to the stables undetected, no one would be the wiser.” Pamela adds, “We’d have to have a change of clothes for each of us, these prison outfits are too easy to spot. Do you know where our stuff got put?” Rex says that he does not, but that there are stores in Canon City where he could buy clothing. He adds that it might be better to buy things thirty-five miles away in Pueblo instead, as people in Canon City might wonder why a prison guard suddenly needed woman’s clothing. </p><p></p><p>“The gates are closed at night aren’t they?” Pamela asks. Rex says that they are, and that there are night guards posted up in the towers by each gate. He says, “They keep dynamite in the tool shed. It would attract attention, but we could blow a hole in the gate where there aren’t any guards and ride out, nobody would get hurt and it would still take time for them to organize a posse to come after us.” “A lot of time if we took all of the horses with us,” Sally adds. </p><p></p><p>Rex says, “We should be able to get a distance off at least, I don’t want any guards getting shot. Nobody gets any guns until after we ride through the hole and are well away from the place.” Sally says, “I’m alright with that, but what if something doesn’t go according to plan? I don’t want you getting caught trying to help us with a saddlebag full of guns. And getting away might mean shooting someone in the leg to keep them from chasing us. I don’t want the whole plan to fall apart and for you to get in trouble.” Rex points out that the gate guards would be staying up in the towers not chasing on foot. As long as we are out of range of their shotguns we’ll be fine.” </p><p></p><p>Sally suggests, “We could maybe use some dynamite to start a diversion elsewhere, get the guards to focus on another part of the prison first.” Rex says that most parts of the prison are still within sight of at least one of the three gatehouses, each of which would have a pair of guards on duty. He comments “We have to avoid the gatehouses. There is no way we’d make it through any of those without killing someone, and we are not going to be killing anybody.” </p><p></p><p>Rex also points out that there are far more horses in the stable than what the small number of them can ride. Sally reiterates that she, Pinto and Mongo were ranchers, and know how to gather together and bring along lots of horses, so taking all of them would be viable. Besides, we may need to change mounts at some point.” Pamela adds, “It’s a good plan, but Sally is right, not everything goes according to plan. Rex says he will have a bag with the changes of clothes waiting in the stables, then he’ll put a gun inside each person’s saddlebags there but that they aren’t to take them out until they are all away from the prison.” </p><p></p><p>Pamela asks who is going to set off the dynamite. Rex says that he knows a thing or two about that. Pamela whispers to Sally loud enough for Rex to overhear “See, he’s not just a pretty face.” Rex points out a section of the walls to the northeast that is furthest from any of the gates that he should be able to get over to. Rex says, “We’ve got to concentrate on covering as much ground as fall as possible. We’ll ride for several hours and then change mounts, let the old ones ride off and take the ones that had riders until then. That’ll give us the best chance to get furthest away.” </p><p></p><p>Sally says, “Good plan, the other horses will be tired but not as tired as the ones we’ll be riding.” “Exactly,” Rex states adding, “I still remember a thing or two from my Pony Express days.” Sally adds, “You said we’re taking Mongo, Black Angus and Shamus. We’ll have to take each of their cellmates too, anybody we leave behind will know what was going on and might call out and spoil things otherwise.” Rex says, “Angus has no cellmate and I was planning to bring Shamus’s cellmate along two, that Bennett is a mountain man, he has the skills for us to live off the land.”</p><p></p><p>Noticing the omitted name, Sally asks, “And Pinto Joe….?” After a long pause Rex says, “You’ve got to understand. I can’t let you fall back into that sort of company again.” Sally says, “You heard his note, he’s willing to end things. He can ride off in another direction.” Rex states, “No Sally!” She pleads, “You’re going to have us start a new life with blood on our hands?” “Not an option,” Rex replies. </p><p></p><p>Sally decides to try a different tact and says, “Blood is blood. I would need to repent. Maybe I can become a nun.” Pamela suppresses her desire to laugh and says, “Might take a lot of repenting.” Sally says, “It might. I’ve done some mighty bad things. Leaving Pinto here to die when we could have helped him would just make it worse. I hear there are some missions out in California. If we leave him here I might just have to become a nun.” Rex says, “I’m sorry you feel that way about it Sally.” </p><p></p><p>Pamela tells Rex she will also need him to get some medical supplies and rattles off a short list, with the list including chloroform, thinking she will probably need to use that on Rex at some point. Rex heads off back downstairs, heavily in thought.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 4276721, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter Seventeen, “Escape Plans”, Tuesday, June 13, 1882 – Canon City Colorado[/B] At dawn Pinto writes a short note for Rex to deliver for Sally. Sally’s player sarcastically comments, “Yeah, that ain’t getting to me.” “This one might,” Pinto’s player comments. The day guard brings the prisoners their breakfast and collects waste buckets, not speaking to any of the prisoners other than an occasional profane word stated to the male prisoners. He goes off duty mid-afternoon. Rex comes around at 3:00 PM bringing fresh buckets of water. Pinto calls Rex over and slips the note across stating “Give this to Sally.” Rex stashes the note in his pocket, to read it on the stairwell before heading up to the ladies. He usually just drops Pinto‘s notes to Sally into the waste buckets but decides that this one will indeed be delivered. Rex approaches the ladies and says “Good Afternoon.” Sally has been giving a lot of thought as to what to say. She comments in a soft, almost pleading voice “I’ve been thinking about what you said. And if I’m really going to start a new life I can’t do it with a man who doesn’t appreciate my friendships. I mean, even though Pinto may have been the one who led me astray, in his own way he has been good to me and I can’t abandon him to die.” Pinto takes out the note and hands it to her, saying “Read this.” She looks it over. Pamela asks, “Is it from Pinto?” Sally replies, “Yeah. It says ‘Sally, It’s not right for us to die for Deadeye Douglas’s crimes. I was the one who convinced you to join the Gang. I am sorry that I caused all of this, try to forget me, I wish that you would have found an honorable man instead.’” “Is that all?” Pamela asks. “That’s all,” Sally replies. “Wow, that’s pretty big of him don’t you think Sally?” Pamela asks adding “I admire a man who can admit when he’s done wrong.” Rex comments, “You look upset Sally, is everything alright?” She says, “I’m alright. I would have thought that making a clean break would have been a little harder.” Pamela looks at both Sally and Rex when she says, “That just goes to show that Pinto does indeed have honor in him.” Sally looks to Rex and says, “See, it’s what I told you about him. Now how can I just go off and let him die?” Pamela adds, “He’s right about it being all Deadeye’s fault. He should be the one facing the rope, not innocent Pinto Joe.” Sally interjects, “Absolutely. Talk about leading people astray, it was all Deadeye’s doing. Pinto, Mongo and I were just peaceful ranchers until he came along.” Pamela adds, “Guilt by association. We were just there when someone else’s fingers were pulling the trigger.” Sally looks at Rex and says, “You don’t suppose there’s a bounty on Deadeye Douglas? “There is,” Rex replies. Pamela says, “I wouldn’t be surprised in Deadeye made his way to California. Wouldn’t it be great to start our careers as bounty hunters by bringing him to justice? What do you think Rex?” Rex says, “He did make quite a few enemies and victims. He’d half to get out Colorado quickly and was heading west according to newspaper accounts. He probably did head that way.” Pamela asks, “If we were going to make a clean break how would we go about it? I mean, this is a prison after all. We’re locked in here with nothing. No shoes even, no way to ride off, no supplies or nothing. We’d be dead within hours.” Rex adds, “We’d have to make sure that nobody got hurt when we did it.” “Well of course,” both women state in unison. Rex says, “Well, what I’m thinking is that if I let Shamus out of his cell he could knock out the other guard before he got a chance to call the other guards. Shamus knows how to do that kind of thing with his bare-knuckles.” “He’s the boxer?” Pamela confirms. Rex says, “Exactly!” The girls concur. Rex continues, “Then, if it were late enough, most of the off-duty guards spend their time at night either sleeping or drinking or whoring in town. There’d only be a few other guards on duty, so we should be able to make our way over to the stables undetected, no one would be the wiser.” Pamela adds, “We’d have to have a change of clothes for each of us, these prison outfits are too easy to spot. Do you know where our stuff got put?” Rex says that he does not, but that there are stores in Canon City where he could buy clothing. He adds that it might be better to buy things thirty-five miles away in Pueblo instead, as people in Canon City might wonder why a prison guard suddenly needed woman’s clothing. “The gates are closed at night aren’t they?” Pamela asks. Rex says that they are, and that there are night guards posted up in the towers by each gate. He says, “They keep dynamite in the tool shed. It would attract attention, but we could blow a hole in the gate where there aren’t any guards and ride out, nobody would get hurt and it would still take time for them to organize a posse to come after us.” “A lot of time if we took all of the horses with us,” Sally adds. Rex says, “We should be able to get a distance off at least, I don’t want any guards getting shot. Nobody gets any guns until after we ride through the hole and are well away from the place.” Sally says, “I’m alright with that, but what if something doesn’t go according to plan? I don’t want you getting caught trying to help us with a saddlebag full of guns. And getting away might mean shooting someone in the leg to keep them from chasing us. I don’t want the whole plan to fall apart and for you to get in trouble.” Rex points out that the gate guards would be staying up in the towers not chasing on foot. As long as we are out of range of their shotguns we’ll be fine.” Sally suggests, “We could maybe use some dynamite to start a diversion elsewhere, get the guards to focus on another part of the prison first.” Rex says that most parts of the prison are still within sight of at least one of the three gatehouses, each of which would have a pair of guards on duty. He comments “We have to avoid the gatehouses. There is no way we’d make it through any of those without killing someone, and we are not going to be killing anybody.” Rex also points out that there are far more horses in the stable than what the small number of them can ride. Sally reiterates that she, Pinto and Mongo were ranchers, and know how to gather together and bring along lots of horses, so taking all of them would be viable. Besides, we may need to change mounts at some point.” Pamela adds, “It’s a good plan, but Sally is right, not everything goes according to plan. Rex says he will have a bag with the changes of clothes waiting in the stables, then he’ll put a gun inside each person’s saddlebags there but that they aren’t to take them out until they are all away from the prison.” Pamela asks who is going to set off the dynamite. Rex says that he knows a thing or two about that. Pamela whispers to Sally loud enough for Rex to overhear “See, he’s not just a pretty face.” Rex points out a section of the walls to the northeast that is furthest from any of the gates that he should be able to get over to. Rex says, “We’ve got to concentrate on covering as much ground as fall as possible. We’ll ride for several hours and then change mounts, let the old ones ride off and take the ones that had riders until then. That’ll give us the best chance to get furthest away.” Sally says, “Good plan, the other horses will be tired but not as tired as the ones we’ll be riding.” “Exactly,” Rex states adding, “I still remember a thing or two from my Pony Express days.” Sally adds, “You said we’re taking Mongo, Black Angus and Shamus. We’ll have to take each of their cellmates too, anybody we leave behind will know what was going on and might call out and spoil things otherwise.” Rex says, “Angus has no cellmate and I was planning to bring Shamus’s cellmate along two, that Bennett is a mountain man, he has the skills for us to live off the land.” Noticing the omitted name, Sally asks, “And Pinto Joe….?” After a long pause Rex says, “You’ve got to understand. I can’t let you fall back into that sort of company again.” Sally says, “You heard his note, he’s willing to end things. He can ride off in another direction.” Rex states, “No Sally!” She pleads, “You’re going to have us start a new life with blood on our hands?” “Not an option,” Rex replies. Sally decides to try a different tact and says, “Blood is blood. I would need to repent. Maybe I can become a nun.” Pamela suppresses her desire to laugh and says, “Might take a lot of repenting.” Sally says, “It might. I’ve done some mighty bad things. Leaving Pinto here to die when we could have helped him would just make it worse. I hear there are some missions out in California. If we leave him here I might just have to become a nun.” Rex says, “I’m sorry you feel that way about it Sally.” Pamela tells Rex she will also need him to get some medical supplies and rattles off a short list, with the list including chloroform, thinking she will probably need to use that on Rex at some point. Rex heads off back downstairs, heavily in thought. [/QUOTE]
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