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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 4275861" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Prelude II. – Promise City, Arizona from mid-September until mid-November 1882:</strong></p><p></p><p>Katherine Kale, Kevin Tomlinson and Shannon O’Hara returned to the United states in mid-September and were back in Promise City a week later. Kate found the new school term had already begun and that a new schoolhouse was well under construction. She had been adamant before leaving that the new school not be built on the site of the public municipal lot where hangings had taken place, and Mayor Shaw communicated those feelings in her absence, that site becoming the home of the new fire station instead. </p><p></p><p>A new street was needed to handle the town’s growth, and went up as an east-to-west block north of Sierra Street. The newly constructed Niles Hoover Memorial School became the street’s most prominent building, situated on the east side of Fremont Street and facing the new street which was subsequently named School Street. Colleen and Cathleen O’Hara used the majority of their racing winnings to build the O’Hara family a new home on School Street which they presented to their Mother and Uncle Shamus as a wedding present. </p><p></p><p>Kate cut back her teaching to part-time, officially leaving the school’s Headmistress responsibilities with Meghan O’Hara. Kate then spent much more time on her own studies and being active with the Cattleman’s Association. With her return to Promise City she also re-committed herself to her magical studies with Mr. Gonzales, but found his availability limited on occasion due to a number of different projects he was involved with. Working not only with Manuel Gonzales but also Kevin Tomlinson, she spent time expanding her repertoire of spells as well as strengthening her basic understanding of how magic worked. She also had a few lessons with Doctor Eaton, enhancing her basic medical training. </p><p></p><p>Kate took the week around October 3rd off, staying out at the ranch and tending to her late husband Tom’s grave on the first anniversary of his death. She made sure to spend plenty of time with her ranch partners Flint and Sonoma in order to keep herself from sinking too far into melancholy. </p><p></p><p>One remnant from last March’s festival to the Greek Gods is that two-dozen women in town were blessed by Aphrodite and now find themselves expecting a child within the next month of two. These include four unmarried females and twenty married couples. The unmarried women are Liza Brown whose father owns Brown’s Ice House, Leslie Hutton now of the Long Branch Saloon, Ellen Shaw whose father is the Mayor, and school teacher/rancher Katherine Kale. </p><p></p><p>Brown has identified her child’s father as the late Derek Avery and is currently being courted by furniture maker Cole Rixton. Hutton was employed as a prostitute at the Palace Saloon when she became pregnant and has named deceased bartender Dave Carleen as the child’s father although in reality it could have been any of a dozen men. Miss Shaw refuses to name her child’s father, creating somewhat of a scandal for the Mayor, who has moved her from his outlying ranch to his house in town. Doctor James Eaton and his wife Elizabeth have stated privately to several people that the Goddess Diana herself declared Mrs. Kale’s late husband to be child’s father, which many in town now believe as a result of the Eatons’ testimony, although skeptics suspect her present beau the gambler Conrad Booth to be responsible. </p><p></p><p>The married couples now with child are Rudy and Louisa Baines owners of Baines Butcher Shop and Smokehouse, Carl and Edith Berman owners of Berman’s Mercantile, Rufus and Anita Davis owners of the Arizona Billiard Hall, Manuel and Rosita Escobar who work for the Rocking H Ranch, Michael and Darla Peacock George who work at the Lucky Lady Dance Hall and Saloon, Erza and Elvira Hooten who own the Cochise Boarding House, Bif and Asa Johnson owners of Johnson Barber Shop and Baths, Kevin and Mary Kelly owners of Kelly’s Dry Goods, Peter and Trish Lovelace owners of the Rio Grande Hotel and Cafe, Clay and Hannah Milford who own the Double Eagle Boarding House, Chuck and Carrie Nevers who work for Wells Fargo, Jeremiah and Cornflower Peck who work for the Gunsight Brickyard, Gregory and Barbara Reston owners of Reston’s Pawn Shop, Raymond and Lila Singer who work for the Long Branch Saloon, Eric and Melissa Smith owners of the Promise City Hotel and Restaurant, Juan and Maria Tolucca who work for Cassidy Lumber, Paul and Mina Stevens owners of the First National Bank, Kris and Emma Wagner who manage the Wells Fargo Office, Gregory and Violet Walker owners of the Pine Creek Farm and lastly Charlie and Li Wong owners of Wong’s Laundry. </p><p></p><p>Life continues in the normal routine for Jake Cook into September with one exception. When Mattie’s debt is paid she gives Jake the cold shoulder for a time. That seems to suit him fine, as he felt he was punishing himself as well by putting up with her bellyaching over the cleaning duties. Gay Lady Dance Hall and Saloon dancer Fifi LaFarge takes up the opportunity to gain Jake’s attention, and he dallies with her for several weeks. </p><p></p><p>In mid-September Jake makes another trip to San Francisco to check on his saloon there, at least that is what he stated publicly. Privately, he could not wit any longer to see his new nephew. He spends a week or so visiting, but is somewhat lost dealing with a newborn who is quite messy and too young to corrupt. Jake establishes a bank account in San Francisco and leaves five thousand dollars there for a rainy day. On his way home he sets up an identical rainy day fund in Tucson. </p><p></p><p>In mid-October the school officially moved to its new building. The school currently has forty-one students enrolled, with full-time teaching from the school’s Headmistress Meghan O’Hara, full-time teacher Mollie Caudell, as well as part-time teaching from Katherine Kale, Nate Caudell, Judge Lacey, Manuel Gonzales, Doctor James Eaton, and ‘Mother’ Alajandra Jimenez. Outside of classroom hours Kate continued to spend time with Meghan, Mollie and Sandra Wainwright, cultivating the kind of friendships women need with other women. </p><p></p><p>Kate began renovations of her home. The most important improvement was to have plumbing added, including a full water-closet and bathtub. The former schoolroom became the parlor, complete with piano and the old parlor became a dining room. For these home renovations Kate finally decided to use some of her Seagram family money. She realizes that if she ever moves out to the ranch permanently she can either run the place in town as a boarding house or sell it. She begins to consider hiring a housekeeper for the place given her condition and how busy Ginnie had become. </p><p></p><p>More work was also done on the house out at the ranch, adding on a second story, a dedicated parlor, bedrooms upstairs and also a water closet with plumbing. A wrap around porch is the final feature. Although she doesn’t spend as much time in this house as the one in town she still considers it to be her primary residence and plants the Goddess Diana’s special acorn behind it as soon as the expansions were completed. She also has a small shrine to Diana erected near the house. </p><p></p><p>Some permanent ranch hands are hired to help out, most being half-elves of Apache descent that Flint’s lady friend vouched for the character of. A bunkhouse was built for them to live in. Kate worked with Sonoma to make sure that everything that they needed to appropriately run the place was in order. They began to plan for clearing more land to plant fruits and vegetables for the following year once Kate learned that Meghan O’Hara and her children had prior experience with canning produce. </p><p></p><p>Come late October the Silver Place Saloon holds it grand opening. Jake Cook soon falls back into his familiar Promise City routine again. The mine is doing very well, the saloons are prospering and what little trouble does surface at them is easily handled by the professional managers who he has in place. </p><p></p><p>Jake approaches Mayor and rancher Emory Shaw and miner and rancher Flint Greymountain about future business ventures. What Jake has to offer them is his financial backing and a peculiar knack for navigating through challenges that arise. He and Shaw discuss a potential partnership with ranching businesses that the Mayor is considering, Shaw telling him that the King family’s Bar-W Ranch may soon be up for sale. With Greymountain he enquires about the dwarf’s interest in getting back to the mining business, finding that the dwarf has already expanded his twenty-acre ranch to include mining on and below the lone hill on the property and has thus far obtained several hundred pounds of unprocessed precious metals. </p><p></p><p>As of November, the Priestess Minerva and her ward Nakomo have not returned to Promise City. She does send Jake an occasional letter from their various travels throughout northern California, the northwestern territories and the coastal region of Canada. Minerva’s paramour Nanuet also remains away from Promise City, rumored to now be exploring the eastern United States in the company of Roman-Greek priest Father John Harbrace. Minerva’s predecessor and successor, Reverend Anson Haggler, has fall back into the routine of being Promise City’s preacher although the Roman-Greek Church officially lists his position as Interim Pastor with Minerva still named as the official preacher, currently away on sabbatical. Haggler greatly appreciates the new church building and adjacent home that were constructed during Minerva’s tenure. </p><p></p><p>Kate continued to spend time at the Lucky Lady even though she no longer was an employee there. It gave her the opportunity to not only keep in touch with Jake, but also to get to know Job Kane’s fiancé Bernice Turner. She also continued to spend a considerable amount of time with Conrad Booth, with both of them learning how to make accommodations and compromise with the other as their relationship became a more settled thing. He kept up with his clarinet lessons, with he and Kate playing together with other musicians at the El Parador and Lucky Lady. It began to feel very strange to Kate that they were not married, a sure sign to her that they likely should be. She dedicated a great deal of time to him as other responsibilities had to be laid aside. </p><p></p><p>The main saloons in town continue to be the Long Branch, Gay Lady, Lucky Lady, Comique and Silver Palace. Drover’s Hotel is now a three-story hotel and restaurant. Several new drinking establishments have also sprung up on the western end of School Street where it intersects with both Front and Federal Streets. Other noteworthy new construction are the Promise City Fire Station at the northeast corner of Main and Federal Streets, Stanley Barker’s Baked Goods on Allen Street between Main and Sierra, Upton’s Bank and Brokerage at the southeast corner of Allen and School Streets and the Blackrock Brewery, a dwarven-run beer and ale manufacturer alongside Pine Creek 100 feet west of the Sierra Street footbridge. </p><p></p><p>Life moves along pleasantly for Silver Jake Cook. Besides visiting his mentor and friend Red in Tucson every other week or so, Jake accompanies the mine shipments from Fisk Mountain into town, practices shooting, plays poker, drinks a fair amount of whiskey and enjoys the company of a number of different women in Promise City, Tombstone and Tucson. Jake noticed that the George Eastman Company recently constructed a photographic plate manufacturing factory in Tucson. Jake heard that both Promise City Deputy Helen Eastman Barker and his Tucson Three Gods Meeting House partner Richard Broughton serve on that factory’s Board of Directors, but he has refrained from asking either of them about Mr. Eastman or the man’s reported fiancé. </p><p></p><p>Jake’s saloons and personal poker games are now on average making him over two hundred dollars a week after his personal expenses and drinking habits, while the mine is bringing in three times that amount. He enjoys the favorable luck while he can, knowing that his patrol Hermes can be capricious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 4275861, member: 8530"] [B]Prelude II. – Promise City, Arizona from mid-September until mid-November 1882:[/B] Katherine Kale, Kevin Tomlinson and Shannon O’Hara returned to the United states in mid-September and were back in Promise City a week later. Kate found the new school term had already begun and that a new schoolhouse was well under construction. She had been adamant before leaving that the new school not be built on the site of the public municipal lot where hangings had taken place, and Mayor Shaw communicated those feelings in her absence, that site becoming the home of the new fire station instead. A new street was needed to handle the town’s growth, and went up as an east-to-west block north of Sierra Street. The newly constructed Niles Hoover Memorial School became the street’s most prominent building, situated on the east side of Fremont Street and facing the new street which was subsequently named School Street. Colleen and Cathleen O’Hara used the majority of their racing winnings to build the O’Hara family a new home on School Street which they presented to their Mother and Uncle Shamus as a wedding present. Kate cut back her teaching to part-time, officially leaving the school’s Headmistress responsibilities with Meghan O’Hara. Kate then spent much more time on her own studies and being active with the Cattleman’s Association. With her return to Promise City she also re-committed herself to her magical studies with Mr. Gonzales, but found his availability limited on occasion due to a number of different projects he was involved with. Working not only with Manuel Gonzales but also Kevin Tomlinson, she spent time expanding her repertoire of spells as well as strengthening her basic understanding of how magic worked. She also had a few lessons with Doctor Eaton, enhancing her basic medical training. Kate took the week around October 3rd off, staying out at the ranch and tending to her late husband Tom’s grave on the first anniversary of his death. She made sure to spend plenty of time with her ranch partners Flint and Sonoma in order to keep herself from sinking too far into melancholy. One remnant from last March’s festival to the Greek Gods is that two-dozen women in town were blessed by Aphrodite and now find themselves expecting a child within the next month of two. These include four unmarried females and twenty married couples. The unmarried women are Liza Brown whose father owns Brown’s Ice House, Leslie Hutton now of the Long Branch Saloon, Ellen Shaw whose father is the Mayor, and school teacher/rancher Katherine Kale. Brown has identified her child’s father as the late Derek Avery and is currently being courted by furniture maker Cole Rixton. Hutton was employed as a prostitute at the Palace Saloon when she became pregnant and has named deceased bartender Dave Carleen as the child’s father although in reality it could have been any of a dozen men. Miss Shaw refuses to name her child’s father, creating somewhat of a scandal for the Mayor, who has moved her from his outlying ranch to his house in town. Doctor James Eaton and his wife Elizabeth have stated privately to several people that the Goddess Diana herself declared Mrs. Kale’s late husband to be child’s father, which many in town now believe as a result of the Eatons’ testimony, although skeptics suspect her present beau the gambler Conrad Booth to be responsible. The married couples now with child are Rudy and Louisa Baines owners of Baines Butcher Shop and Smokehouse, Carl and Edith Berman owners of Berman’s Mercantile, Rufus and Anita Davis owners of the Arizona Billiard Hall, Manuel and Rosita Escobar who work for the Rocking H Ranch, Michael and Darla Peacock George who work at the Lucky Lady Dance Hall and Saloon, Erza and Elvira Hooten who own the Cochise Boarding House, Bif and Asa Johnson owners of Johnson Barber Shop and Baths, Kevin and Mary Kelly owners of Kelly’s Dry Goods, Peter and Trish Lovelace owners of the Rio Grande Hotel and Cafe, Clay and Hannah Milford who own the Double Eagle Boarding House, Chuck and Carrie Nevers who work for Wells Fargo, Jeremiah and Cornflower Peck who work for the Gunsight Brickyard, Gregory and Barbara Reston owners of Reston’s Pawn Shop, Raymond and Lila Singer who work for the Long Branch Saloon, Eric and Melissa Smith owners of the Promise City Hotel and Restaurant, Juan and Maria Tolucca who work for Cassidy Lumber, Paul and Mina Stevens owners of the First National Bank, Kris and Emma Wagner who manage the Wells Fargo Office, Gregory and Violet Walker owners of the Pine Creek Farm and lastly Charlie and Li Wong owners of Wong’s Laundry. Life continues in the normal routine for Jake Cook into September with one exception. When Mattie’s debt is paid she gives Jake the cold shoulder for a time. That seems to suit him fine, as he felt he was punishing himself as well by putting up with her bellyaching over the cleaning duties. Gay Lady Dance Hall and Saloon dancer Fifi LaFarge takes up the opportunity to gain Jake’s attention, and he dallies with her for several weeks. In mid-September Jake makes another trip to San Francisco to check on his saloon there, at least that is what he stated publicly. Privately, he could not wit any longer to see his new nephew. He spends a week or so visiting, but is somewhat lost dealing with a newborn who is quite messy and too young to corrupt. Jake establishes a bank account in San Francisco and leaves five thousand dollars there for a rainy day. On his way home he sets up an identical rainy day fund in Tucson. In mid-October the school officially moved to its new building. The school currently has forty-one students enrolled, with full-time teaching from the school’s Headmistress Meghan O’Hara, full-time teacher Mollie Caudell, as well as part-time teaching from Katherine Kale, Nate Caudell, Judge Lacey, Manuel Gonzales, Doctor James Eaton, and ‘Mother’ Alajandra Jimenez. Outside of classroom hours Kate continued to spend time with Meghan, Mollie and Sandra Wainwright, cultivating the kind of friendships women need with other women. Kate began renovations of her home. The most important improvement was to have plumbing added, including a full water-closet and bathtub. The former schoolroom became the parlor, complete with piano and the old parlor became a dining room. For these home renovations Kate finally decided to use some of her Seagram family money. She realizes that if she ever moves out to the ranch permanently she can either run the place in town as a boarding house or sell it. She begins to consider hiring a housekeeper for the place given her condition and how busy Ginnie had become. More work was also done on the house out at the ranch, adding on a second story, a dedicated parlor, bedrooms upstairs and also a water closet with plumbing. A wrap around porch is the final feature. Although she doesn’t spend as much time in this house as the one in town she still considers it to be her primary residence and plants the Goddess Diana’s special acorn behind it as soon as the expansions were completed. She also has a small shrine to Diana erected near the house. Some permanent ranch hands are hired to help out, most being half-elves of Apache descent that Flint’s lady friend vouched for the character of. A bunkhouse was built for them to live in. Kate worked with Sonoma to make sure that everything that they needed to appropriately run the place was in order. They began to plan for clearing more land to plant fruits and vegetables for the following year once Kate learned that Meghan O’Hara and her children had prior experience with canning produce. Come late October the Silver Place Saloon holds it grand opening. Jake Cook soon falls back into his familiar Promise City routine again. The mine is doing very well, the saloons are prospering and what little trouble does surface at them is easily handled by the professional managers who he has in place. Jake approaches Mayor and rancher Emory Shaw and miner and rancher Flint Greymountain about future business ventures. What Jake has to offer them is his financial backing and a peculiar knack for navigating through challenges that arise. He and Shaw discuss a potential partnership with ranching businesses that the Mayor is considering, Shaw telling him that the King family’s Bar-W Ranch may soon be up for sale. With Greymountain he enquires about the dwarf’s interest in getting back to the mining business, finding that the dwarf has already expanded his twenty-acre ranch to include mining on and below the lone hill on the property and has thus far obtained several hundred pounds of unprocessed precious metals. As of November, the Priestess Minerva and her ward Nakomo have not returned to Promise City. She does send Jake an occasional letter from their various travels throughout northern California, the northwestern territories and the coastal region of Canada. Minerva’s paramour Nanuet also remains away from Promise City, rumored to now be exploring the eastern United States in the company of Roman-Greek priest Father John Harbrace. Minerva’s predecessor and successor, Reverend Anson Haggler, has fall back into the routine of being Promise City’s preacher although the Roman-Greek Church officially lists his position as Interim Pastor with Minerva still named as the official preacher, currently away on sabbatical. Haggler greatly appreciates the new church building and adjacent home that were constructed during Minerva’s tenure. Kate continued to spend time at the Lucky Lady even though she no longer was an employee there. It gave her the opportunity to not only keep in touch with Jake, but also to get to know Job Kane’s fiancé Bernice Turner. She also continued to spend a considerable amount of time with Conrad Booth, with both of them learning how to make accommodations and compromise with the other as their relationship became a more settled thing. He kept up with his clarinet lessons, with he and Kate playing together with other musicians at the El Parador and Lucky Lady. It began to feel very strange to Kate that they were not married, a sure sign to her that they likely should be. She dedicated a great deal of time to him as other responsibilities had to be laid aside. The main saloons in town continue to be the Long Branch, Gay Lady, Lucky Lady, Comique and Silver Palace. Drover’s Hotel is now a three-story hotel and restaurant. Several new drinking establishments have also sprung up on the western end of School Street where it intersects with both Front and Federal Streets. Other noteworthy new construction are the Promise City Fire Station at the northeast corner of Main and Federal Streets, Stanley Barker’s Baked Goods on Allen Street between Main and Sierra, Upton’s Bank and Brokerage at the southeast corner of Allen and School Streets and the Blackrock Brewery, a dwarven-run beer and ale manufacturer alongside Pine Creek 100 feet west of the Sierra Street footbridge. Life moves along pleasantly for Silver Jake Cook. Besides visiting his mentor and friend Red in Tucson every other week or so, Jake accompanies the mine shipments from Fisk Mountain into town, practices shooting, plays poker, drinks a fair amount of whiskey and enjoys the company of a number of different women in Promise City, Tombstone and Tucson. Jake noticed that the George Eastman Company recently constructed a photographic plate manufacturing factory in Tucson. Jake heard that both Promise City Deputy Helen Eastman Barker and his Tucson Three Gods Meeting House partner Richard Broughton serve on that factory’s Board of Directors, but he has refrained from asking either of them about Mr. Eastman or the man’s reported fiancé. Jake’s saloons and personal poker games are now on average making him over two hundred dollars a week after his personal expenses and drinking habits, while the mine is bringing in three times that amount. He enjoys the favorable luck while he can, knowing that his patrol Hermes can be capricious. [/QUOTE]
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