Ch 6
Jimmy and Audrey raced back into the station to find Teaspoon and the others already waiting. Jimmy and Audrey pulled their horses to a sliding stop.
"Son we might have trouble headin this way." Said Teaspoon.
"Ain't no maybe about it. I saw bout a dozen men riding toward this way. Hard."
"Lou saw em in Benton. She heard that they were looking for three women. Sounded like our ladies."
Jimmy looked to Audrey who staring down at her horse.
"Audrey!"
She jumped and looked at Jimmy.
"Don't you think it's time?"
"Time for what?" Asked Teaspoon.
"She needs to tell y'all something important." Said Jimmy.
Audrey looked to Sheila and Mary who nodded their consent.
"We failed to mention a small part in our story." Whispered Audrey.
"It ain't small." Said Jimmy.
"Max just isn't looking for us. We may have taken a sum of money with us when we left."
"More than that." Said Jimmy.
"Oh please. Stop pussy footing around it Audrey dear. We stole a little over fifty thousand." Said Sheila.
"Fifty thousand dollars?!" Asked Teaspoon in shock.
"It isn't that much really. The stupid rich man deserved it. He thought he could kill my father and keep me there. All of us there to become his own personal whores, I would like to think otherwise." Argued Mary.
"Why not just leave?" Asked Lou.
"Because he killed my father and my sister, he threw them over the side into the Mississippi as I screamed my heart out. Sheila and Audrey had to drag me away. I am not a whore and I wanted to get him by the balls. Pardon my language."
"No offense taken." Said Teaspoon shocked.
"We wanted to ruin him. He took a shining to Audrey so Sheila taught her everything she knows. She played him so well. Got him drunk, tied him up, then we robbed him." Said Mary.
"We jumped ship and started running." Said Audrey.
"I spit on that dirty dog before we left him. He doesn't want his money, he just can't stand to be outsmarted by three women." Fussed Sheila.
Teaspoon looked to his boys.
"If he gets them, they won't survive."
"So what do we do?" Asked Kid.
"We get them out of town to somewhere safe."
"I want you to know one more thing Mr. Spoon." Said Mary.
"There's more?"
"That riverboat belonged to my father. Max cheated him out of it in a card game. The boat is still in my name." Said Mary.
"It's yours?"
"I never signed it over. I want it back."
"Is he with the posse?"
"Yes, he is. He'll be the only one in a suit and top hat."
"Ok boys, I got a plan." Said Teaspoon.
"I'm scared to ask." Said Jimmy.
"We will send us out a decoy then take the girls and run to the old mine until I sort this out."
"Decoy?" Asked Kid.
"Yeah. We have two lovely dark headed ladies and one blonde to hide."
"But where are we gonna find someone to help us?" Said Kid.
"We won't have to."
"I don't follow." Said Jimmy.
"Well we have Louise who is a beautiful brunette."
"That's only one." Said Jimmy.
"We also have a soon to be Miss Hickok and Miss Cody." Teaspoon smiled.
"Excuse me?" Said Jimmy confused.
"I still don't follow." Said Cody.
"I get it." Laughed Noah and Buck.
"Boys, we now have our two brunettes and our one blonde."
"Uh, uh, no way." Said Jimmy shaking his head.
"Why us?" Asked Cody.
"Both you boys have such nice long hair. It will work just fine. Buck, Ike, get the carriage hitched and ready. Kid and Noah, get the girls ready to ride. Emma and ladies, get Miss Louise and these boys all gussied up."
"We have our work cut out." Scoffed Sheila looking at Cody who was supposed to be her.
Louise and Emma laughed as they grabbed Jimmy and Cody to push them into Emma's house.