"It all happened rather fast if ya be asking me," Mrs. Clara Bellsworth mentions to Darlene Petticoat as they watch the stage. It was truly a strange sight after all these years to see Miss Caroline on the stage instead of helping one off it. Oh and that child that is now here.

"Do ya think she'll last more then a week?" Darlene flutters her lashes as her voice lifts out above the stage coach's din. Her question is of course of the new 'manager' of the boarding house. "I don't know, my Noah, says she's a small thing, too perky and way too happy to be here. Though I heard tale that she's a relation of Miss Caroline's older brother. Ya know the one that died in Texas?" There is a hush that falls while Darlene thinks this over and then turns to look back towards Maddock, "I hear tale she's from Boston and has been protected her whole life, ya think she's running from something?" This of course causes Mrs. Bellsworth to gasp, "Now Miss Darlene, I'd hate to be a gossip, but.." Their voices soon lost in the din of other nervous hens trying not to be gossips

Elsewhere

Mariah dusts the golden ringlets from her teal eyes as she walks around the boarding house. Room after room two things strike her, one she has no clue what she is doing and two.. she's never been happier in her life. The dainty doll of a woman finds her luggage in her aunt's room and attempts to find the ledger of names. As her hands stroke the key to the bedroom, a smile curves her lips, its not Texas, but for now its hers. Slowly, in curving script she starts to write..

June 25th, 1877

I HAVE ARRIVED!!

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