Two-Gun Edie With a Parasol by William Meador

Author:William Meador [Meador, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Nonfiction/Religion/General
Publisher: Authors' Publishing House

14.

Gabriel asked, “Where are we going, Miss Edie?”

“Why, Gabriel, I thought we might go to Kansas. Just think of all those gambling towns, there is Salinas, Abilene, Dodge and a lot of others. A woman gambling would be a novelty and draw big crowds. My cut would be very nice.”

John and Gabriel exchanged looks, laughed, and John said, “Miss Edie, you’re the boss.”

“Then tell the ladies to pack. I will go make some arrangements.”

As the rent on the adobe casa was paid up until the next first of the month, Edie did not tell anyone they were leaving. She did have John take her go to the train station, so she could purchase tickets for El Paso.

When the ticket agent handed her the tickets, she asked, “Do you have a schedule for the east bound trains?”

“Yes, Ma’am,” he said and dug around in the counter drawers. He found a schedule and handed it to her. She saw a schedule for the west bound trains as well.

She asked, “Could I have a west bound schedule as well?”

“Sure,” He said, as he eyed Edie’s, now ample cleavage. She saw his mind was not on tickets or schedules.

Smiling and waving at the ticket agent, she left the station, and climbed in the buggy, muttering, “What a pig of a man.”

Because of the location of the rented casa, Edie had earlier rented a team and buggy. As part of her plans, she had John drive by the livery.

She asked, “If I had to go out of town and needed to leave the team and wagon in town, what would I do?”

“Why, just unhitch the team and turn them loose in the carrel. I would find them next morning.”

In a few days, with Gabriel driving, they hauled their trunks to the rail station and piled them on the platform. As it was three in the morning, the station agent was not to be found.

The buggy was delivered to the livery and the horses turned loosed in the carrel, like the owner instructed. Gabriel walked back to the station, just in time to board the west bound.

He asked, “I thought we were going east?”

“That is what I want everyone to think,” Edie said. “Now watch.”

The next morning, the conductor knocked on the door of the Pullman, taking tickets. He nodded at Edie and said, “Ma’am, you are on the wrong train.”

“I am? I thought the agent said take the four-fifteen to Phoenix.”

“Yes, Ma’am, the four-fifteen in the afternoon would take you to Phoenix, but the four-fifteen in the morning takes you to Flagstaff, by the way of the west coast. Besides, you have tickets to El Paso.”

She exclaimed, with big wide eyes and her mouth making a circle, “Oh, my goodness, what a mix up. What am I going to do? This train does go to Flagstaff?”

“Well, you can get there from here, but it is a long way around.”

“We can’t very well get off in the middle of the desert, can we? So, if you will tell me the difference in the rates, we will go to Phoenix the long way.

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