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After supper Wade said to Ed ...Me and Zeke will look at your wound Ed . Lay down on the bed . Ed reluctantly complied taking his shirt off . Wade and Zeke looked at the stiches . Ed said ...Take em out ! Zeke stood up and said ...No ! We know how you are ! You could still bust it loose doing things...

Much work got done ! The bunkhouse was finished except for putting in the wood stove . The floor finished in the new cabins with just a few hours work left on the roof . Zeke had laid out the interior walls . Tomorrow the young Rangers would build another outhouse for the cabins out back of them . D...

Wade and Zeke were back on the roof of the new cabins nailing shakes on the next morning . Carlos and Tomas laying floor with Joy and Katy smoothing and truing boards . The young Rangers had been put to making a long table and shelves for the bunkhouse . Simon and Juan's families would be living in ...

The next morning They pulled out of camp . It took a bit to get everyone situated in the wagons ..they were crowded . They had to travel slow , the two full loaded wagons , the broken wagon with the drag pole they hoped would make it to the ford . Mid morning they saw a wagon in the distance behind ...

The second day out headed to the ranch the ranch wagon carrying Simon and Juan's families went over a natural terrace and the right rear wheel thudded into a hole . The wheel was broken with half it's spokes gone . There was no way to fix it . They talked of unloading the other ranch wagon and using...

Wade and Zeke were roofing the cabins starting at the end the floor was finished . Carlos and Tomas were still laying the floor on the rest of them working toward the last cabin . Katy and Joy were using the planes smoothing and truing boards . Two of the young Rangers were bringing in more logs , t...

Steve went the next morning after breakfast and picked up Simon and Juan's families . They had slept on the floor in Simon's house . Their bedding and a few buckets were all they had , the bedding laid in the bed of the wagon for them to sit on . All the wagons pulled away from the Staley's store af...

Don and Cindy rode into Eliasville . Don was trying to figure out how he was going to explain Cindy going to the ranch with them . He decided the truth was the was the best way . They tied up at the Staley's store and they went in . He introduced her to the Staleys and asked if she could spend the n...

Much got done ! Everyone looked forward to Don and the others getting back from Eliasville . They were all excited about Juan and Simon's families coming and getting ready for them . Nate was being taught to walk , Rosa was wearing him out holding him up to walk . The cabins were coming together fas...

The walls were up on the new cabins . Beams were being hewed and fitted for the roof . The floors were half done , Carlos and Tomas were working on them . Katy was on the plane smoothing boards . Wade was teaching Joy how to rive boards and rough true them to save time with the plane . Joy was a qui...

Don and Cindy had rode about five miles from Fort Graham . She said nothing following him with her baby . Don looked back and she was crying . He dropped back quick and asked what was wrong . He said ...I will not let anything bad happen to you and your baby ! You are safe , the ranch is a beautiful...

Don got up and dressed in the Ranger bunkhouse . He saddled all three horses , they needed the saddles of the dead outlaws at the ranch . He started to ride past Granny Ruth's but he didn't want to make her mad and he enjoyed talking to Cindy . Granny was right ...she was a nice girl ! He went in an...

Katy and Lucy were hanging laundry on the clothesline out back that the new Ranger had washed . Rosa was carrying Nate running around making Blue and Lucy's black dog chase them . Joy and one of the new young Rangers had been bringing logs from downriver , Joy was using a Comanche horse and the youn...

The new Rangers were required to do nothing the day they arrived . They had been traveling for four days , they admitted to getting 'lost' twice . The next morning Ed woke them up and told them to stake the horses out to graze and carry water to the cabin . They were not happy about it . Zeke was st...

Don got to Granny Ruth's café . There weren't many left eating . it was near dark . A young girl was helping her and took his order for enchiladas , beans and rice . Directly Granny saw him and let the girl take over the cooking . She walked straight to Don's table and sat down . She said ...You liv...