Unshown Moments for Gold Mine Season 11 (1)

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"I'll just mosey on down there myself after a spell and…" Pa Gibbyjohn looked up as he imagined the red head down at the cabin. "and see if the coast is clear." He added when he realized his sons were staring at him intently.

Understanding the looks on their faces, he knew they had an idea of what he intended to see.

"Well, I got more moral fiber than what you got. I can, uh, I can look upon that Jezebel and not be… tempted." Yeah, tempted was the word alright. "Uh, in the meantime, skinny on up that tree and get me my jug. There's a… there's a chill in the air."

As soon as his son retrieved his jug, Pa snuck down to the cabin and stationed himself just outside, looking through the torn scrap of cloth used a curtain, watching the two people inside. Apparently the young man was going to sleep on a cot in the main room and the woman was going to sleep in the other room.

Taking a look behind him, satisfying himself that his boys were nowhere around, Pa quickly snuck around the side of the cabin to another window where he could get a better look at the back room.

Silently, with a leer, Pa watched the woman as she began to strip out of her clothes and with a pan of water and a wash cloth, began to clean up. He'd never seen a woman that pretty in all his days. Glorious red hair and blue eyes and that figure….

Silently, he stared, swallowing hard, as she peeled off more of her clothes and more and more skin was revealed. Pa's eyes widened when, with her back to him, she slipped her blouse from her shoulders and began removing the camisole underneath it. Pa hadn't seen something that pretty since his now dead wife and he was first married.

No. No, now that he thought about it, his wife wasn't that pretty. She'd been shorter, plumper and a whole lot more… more… well, she hadn't been like the red head he was watching now.

Slowly lowering his hand, the old man sought to ease the ache that watching the woman had caused but just as it'd reached its intended destination, he suddenly heard something behind him. Stiffening, the old man carefully looked behind him,

There, just a few yards away, was a skunk watching him curiously. Pa froze. Never the cleanest of men and certainly not one to take baths as often as his son Eb, he still didn't want to smell like a skunk if he could help it. For several minutes, he sat perfectly still as he tried to decide what to do.

"Miss Kitty?" He heard the young man at the door. "I'm going to get some firewood and bring it in."

Pa's eyes widened as he realized, he was sitting by the wood pile. Quickly, he scanned the area in the weak light coming from the window. He couldn't see any place to hide. Well, he couldn't see any place aside from the tall tree that the skunk was currently nesting under.

Wildly turning his head this way and that he had just glanced back towards the window when the woman, bare from the waist up, was just about to turn in his direction. For a couple of seconds he was mesmerized, licking his lips, waiting for her to turn completely around but just then, he heard footsteps heading in his direction.

Pa Gibbyjohn swallowed hard, knowing the young man with the hard fists was about to discover him outside of the lady's room, peeking in at something he shouldn't.

"Uh, Thad?" The woman had quickly put a robe around her and stepped to the curtain that separated the rooms. Thad paused, and turned away, without seeing Pa sitting there just on the other side of the wood.

"Bring enough wood in for the stove will ya?" The red head called. "I'll cook us something good for dinner tomorrow."

"Oh, okay, Miss Kitty." Thad answered.

While the young man was yet looking away, Pa glanced back to see the skunk had finally moved on and the only escape path available to him was free. Quickly, he hurried away and slipped into the surrounding woods. He had no idea what they did with the gold but he'd worry about that later.

Right then, his heart was pounding too hard. He'd have one of the boys sneak in later to get the gold as soon as he found a place to stop and rest where his boys and that young man and that skunk couldn't find him and he could sit back and think about that sight that he'd almost seen that night.

Yep, if he never saw another woman for as long as he lived, he'd be able to honestly say, he had that night. And the sight was almost worth more than the gold he'd lost to her and almost worth the stench he'd had if the skunk had caught him.

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