Where should I start? Well I guess I should start at the beginning. My name was Emilie Davies I first met Billy and the rest of the regulators, including Dick, when I was just 17. They weren't known as the regulators back then and John Tunstall well he was still alive and fine.
I turned up at John's door one morning after having met him in Lincoln I had told him I had no parents and when he asked if I knew or had anything to do with Murphy and his men, I told him no and he invited me to join him and the rest of the guys so that's just what I did. I got on well with all of them but Billy he seemed weary of me and constantly on edge when I was in the same area. When Murphy showed up one day before the New Year Billy hid in a type of chicken den. John stood in front facing Murphy not showing any kind of fear. Chavez, Dick, Doc, Steve, Charlie and me stood about a pace behind him just staring at that idiot on horseback. "I do believe you have some of my property." Murphy first said to John.
"I can assure you I do not have any of your property…" John replied slowly and calmly
"Yes you do. Her" Murphy said this whilst pointing straight at me with a gloved finger. Now that everyone was staring at me with wide and angry eyes I felt uncomfortable and needing to explain myself. Instead I knocked the idiot on his arse and pulled a gun on him this shocked people even more but no one aimed a gun at me. "For starters what kind of woman carries a gun and secondly what kind of person pulls one on their Father!"
"And why don't you leave me alone to get on with my life?"
"Well I found a man for you to marry! You can get on with your life with him by your side."
"You can shove your match up your ugly arse until it picks your nose. I am not going anywhere." Without another word spoken I aimed my gun at a tree behind me without looking and fired. I could have sworn for a moment that the Murphy boys had shit themselves when a headless bird fell from the tree. I let my Dad get up back onto his horse and watched him ride away with the rest of them. I turned around chuckling to myself only to be faced with 6 guns each with an angry face behind them. Dick was the first to speak "You lied to us. About everything. "
"A woman doesn't choose her father!" I snapped back quickly. I half expected John to interrupt with a logical idea that would suit all of us but he didn't I felt as if I had let him down but I had only been there a week. They gave me 3 canteens of water, 2 bread loaves, 2 guns and a horse they told me to leave and never return to them. If I had followed those orders Billy would have died long before he should have done.