The Law and Miss Penny by Sharon Ihle

Author:Sharon Ihle [Sharon Ihle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B008BX4O78
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2012-06-14T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

The following night at about eleven, with Daisy tucked into her arms, Mariah crept down the hallway to Cain's room. Everything had been going smoothly. Her plan to keep Cain in the dark about his real identity was working, up to and including keeping him away from the newspaper article about the Doolittle Gang.

Earlier that evening, Mariah had given Artemis the nineteen dollars Cain had returned to her, and then her "partner in crime," as she'd come to think of the young man, bought every copy of the Durango Herald the minute they arrived back at the hotel. After that, he fled into the night to dispose of them down in poverty flats. Cain, apparently not too disappointed he'd missed buying his nightly copy, decided to go to his room to rest rather than search any farther than the lobby for a newspaper.

Smiling as she realized how much she had to do with his state of exhaustion, Mariah knocked softly at Cain's door. When it opened, she said, "It's Daisy again. She misses you, and thought of a few more things she'd like to talk to you about."

With a husky chuckle, Cain swung the door wide. "Do come in. I was just thinking about how much I miss her."

At just after ten the next night, Mariah hurried down the hallway again, this time sans dog. As she reached up to knock on Cain's door, it suddenly opened. He stood in the entryway, nude from the waist up.

"What took you so long?" he asked thickly.

Her eyes twinkling with mirth, Mariah batted her lashes and said, "I only stopped by to say good night. I've decided to stay in my own room this evening and maybe get a little rest. I've been kind of tired lately, and—"

"Get in here." Cain took her by the hand and pulled her into his room. Then he kicked the door shut behind them.

Down the hall a few feet, the door to room 223 softly clicked to a close at almost the exact same moment.

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The Penny family prided themselves on the manner in which they manufactured their medicines, taking special care to always use the freshest, most authentic ingredients available. Even their own brand of wizard oil was made largely from its working properties: camphor, ammonia, chloroform, sassafras, cloves, and turpentine. Many of their contemporaries made wizard oil with up to seventy percent alcohol as its main ingredient, but the Pennys added just enough for preservation. As for the other medicines, nothing but pure mineral water would do as the base liquid for these recipes.

Although their travels took them to almost every corner of the Southwest, no matter which route they chose to follow each year the Pennys always began their show season in the town of Pagosa Springs. There the family not only manufactured as much medicine as they could carry, but filled two large barrels from the geysers which bubbled over near the bathhouses in the little town. They occasionally sold this

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