It was a long sad ride back from Dog Flats to Busted Gulch and 3Gun had plenty of time to look back over his life, the choices he'd made, and the paths he had taken. His thoughts were a mashup of card games, gun fights, train robberies and friends that had come and gone. Seemed his whole life had been a series of chasing and shooting, revenge and remorse.
There had been good times too, and he forced himself to remember those as a molten sun melted into the silhouette of the mountains. He timed his arrival back in the Gulch when it was night, he planned on just watching and learning what was happening since he had left.
He was surprised how large Tent City had become and how his Deputy was managing the enforcement of the firearm ordinance in town. As a precaution, when he ordered the notice, he had told CrazyGoose she should keep her gun just in case, but keep it out of sight. Of course that was like asking the sun to stop shining.
Alister's situation was still unresolved. Lorne was in town but hadn't taken the Steel gang back yet, he was trying to bully his sister into going home. That had caused a saloon brawl as well as a street fight between him and AJ in which AJ broke his nose, and might have done worse had Loren not stopped him.
3Gun was tempted to step in but decided to wait a bit longer out of sight. He made his way to his room in the hotel, assured his presence would be kept quiet, and he asked that Little Ron be brought to see him.
3Gun didn't have much regard for Ron but he knew the little runt could move about with nobody noticing and he hired him to bring buckets of water to the hotel bath and telling him all the gossip, warning that if he opened his mouth to anyone he would wind up in one of the buckets himself. The gossip, it turned out, was a litany of romantic debacles that had dwarfed all other town business.
He sat in his bathtub, dribbling lilac water at intervals and considered what he had learned.
Love was in the air
Every sight and every sound
Love was in the air
Every time he turned around
If it wasn't Ruechari and Billy
It was something that was equally silly
Even his Deputy Myna, had come under Lorne Order's spell
Love was in the air
Little Ron had brought the word
3Gun shook his head
Disbelieving what he'd heard
AJ was smitten with Loren
He'd defended her honour with fists
Leaving her torn between loyalties
And a path filled with nothing but twists
Love was in the air
And it baffled every mind
No one seemed exempt
No one he could find
He suddenly thought about CG
And all the incidents they'd left behind
He huddled down in his bathwater
Praying that he could unwind
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
LOVE IS IN THE AIR!
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The History of Busted Gulch - Vol. 2
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