The Argo Goes West

36, A Rancher's Widow

John Braddock chilled out. Could it be the efficacy of the Nectar he drank for the first time to boost his mood? John reflexively gave his usual business greeting to a beautiful woman who emerged from the house. "Good evening, ma'am. l'm looking for Mrs. Daybright,"

"Me," Jacqueline Daybright nodded, quizzically. She looked much younger than John had imagined. She was very beautiful and had the grace of being from the East.

"I have something to tell you," John said, changing his expression from a business smile to a serious one. "Your husband has passed away."

Jacqueline's thin eyebrows, beautifully arched like a rainbow, fluttered. She opened her big eyes even wider and said, "Oh, really?"

"Please accept my sincere condolences"

"Maybe he was killed by a skeleton?"

"Skeleton?" John asked, puzzled.

"Isn't it?"

"Well, I don't know.By the time I passed by, your husband was already dead." John was still surprised at how easily he lied.

John led the widow to the wagon.

Unscrupulous as it may be, John thought the widow's sorrowful face looking at her husband's body was beautiful. John stared at her for a while, then realized he forgot to mention something important. "I had a message for you from your husband."

Jacqueline turned her gaze away from her husband's corpse to John. Her eyes were the same deep amber color as her hair. "What kind of message?"

"He said he loved his wife."

"Really?" She lowered her head with a faint smile. John further said. "There's more. It's because of you that I've been able to live in this barren wasteland. You were The heart's oasis to me. I don't want you to be sad if I die. "

"Well..." Jacqueline blushed and blushed like a maiden. "Did he really say that? He'd never said that to me before."

"Maybe he was shy. When it came time for him to die, he was about to say all he could think. As the same man, I understand your husband's feelings very well."

John looked calm, but his armpits were sweating like he had never sweated before. John was relieved that he was able to get through the lie to the end. He greeted her and was about to leave. But Jacqueline held him back.

"It's already late at night. Would you like to stay the night?"

John was taken aback by the unexpected invitation. "I wish I could, but I have to get to the next town by tomorrow morning on business."

"What is your business?"

I sell a healthy drink called Nector."

"I'll take it"

"Thank you. One or two?"

"Everything"

"Huh......"

Jacqueline loved John's stunned face. She chuckled and said, "Please, come in. Are you hungry? If so, I'll get you ready to eat right away."