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home.”
    â€œWere you married right off?”
    â€œNo, she had a large hacienda she had left her brother-in-law to run. But she wanted to see if we were really made for each other. So in time we were married in her church.”
    â€œTell him about her husband,” Jesus said.
    â€œThree years before we met, some bandits came to the hacienda and knocked on the door. He went to answer it and they gunned him down. She met two of them on the stairs and gunned them down and shot the third one coming back in the house stepping over her husband’s bloody body.”
    â€œThat is tough. She really had things hard and was strong enough to win.”
    Chet stretched his tight back muscles. “In the first place her husband kidnapped her from a dance and then took off. Married her in a small Catholic chapel and took her back as his wife to his hacienda .”
    â€œI’d say she was used to short courtships.”
    â€œShe told me later that she worried I’d think badly about her boldness, but she feared she would lose me forever in the short time we would be together that day and night.”
    â€œYou are a lucky guy. You pulled up roots in Texas and came here and haven’t had a bad day yet.”
    â€œThe day I got shot I thought was going to be my last day.”
    â€œI’ve never been shot. But I never have been in law enforcement, either.”
    â€œIt will damn sure make you a lot more cautious.”
    â€œI bet so. I need to talk to JD’s wife—her name is Bonnie, right?”
    â€œShe will tell you she does not miss the fast life and will even tell Rebecca that, too, if you think it will help.”
    â€œI don’t want to lose her, but I fear she may go back. There’s lots she’s never told me, and I fear about her past.”
    â€œYou want some time off?” Chet asked.
    â€œNo. I am who I am. I wanted this job and that is how I’ll earn my living until you get tired of me. I am not going back to construction or being a cowboy unless I have to. With this job I can afford to support her. It might not be enough for her, but we won’t starve.”
    â€œGood luck,” Chet said, grateful that Spencer was staying with them.
    They reached Hayden’s Ferry, caught a meal, and reloaded on the southbound Tucson coach. They made Papago Wells and later in the night, Tucson. Chet got them all rooms and made plans to meet them for breakfast. Then he fell into bed and was asleep fast.

C HAPTER 2
    His coffee the next morning in Tucson tasted good and the huevos rancheros with fresh pork sausage filled the gap in his belly. “I want to talk to my attorney, here, Russell Craft, about Buster Weeks and his gang. See what he knows about his activity while we are here. Lawyers hear a lot others don’t get to. You two can rest or see the town. We can meet for lunch at Jesus’s cousin’s café. All right?”
    â€œSure. Or we can go down to the barrio and maybe learn something, too,” Jesus said.
    â€œGood idea. Tomorrow we can go to Tubac and see if the Force is there. The women will be there, and they will have horses for us to ride over the hills to Diablo if the men are not there.”
    Chet found Russell at his office, and he greeted Chet with a smile and handshake. “I don’t see much of you anymore?”
    â€œI have been building a stage line from Gallup, New Mexico, to the Colorado River.”
    â€œI read you had some problems up there. That parallels the route planned for the railroad.”
    â€œYes, it does. Too many problems starting up, but we’ve solved them for now. We are using buckboards now for the mail, but in a short while it will be a stage line.”
    â€œThat train may never get there at the rate it’s building track.”
    â€œYou are right. Things are about at a standstill.”
    â€œWhat can I do for you?”
    â€œI am having old problems return. My foreman on the