Hattie excused herself from the table and began cleaning up after the meal and Tad asked Jim, “Would you like a drop of ‘Old Stump Blower’ to celebrate me finding you?”
“That sounds like as good an excuse as any to take a drink, Tad.” Jim calmly replied. Xxx They were welcomed at the door by Tad’s wife, Hattie, and his two little tow-headed boys. “Why, everybody’s been thinking you was dead! Bill Hickock had been a rowdy gambler who’d sometimes take a job as a lawman when the cards weren’t falling his way, until some writer back east had adopted him and made him famous as “Wild Bill”. I sent a message to the Captain and the next I heard you disappeared. “Capt.
