Epilogue
Three weeks after they left Willow Crick, they rolled into Woody Draw. It had become a pretty little town with maturing oak and chestnut trees along the main street, which now boasted two churches, a post office, a school that held more than one room, and a sawmill at the far end of town. There were still ladies living above the Diamond Garter, although George didn’t recognize any of them, and now there was competition from another saloon, the Silver Slipper.
As for the expected railway depot, it was just a year or so in the future.
It didn’t surprise George when Mrs. Fox announced she and her children were going to remain behind in town. She sold off her mules for a tidy sum, and when the town council learned she’d been a schoolteacher, they offered her a position in spite of
