The clocks happened to change that morning and her sister had been razzing her that she had a husband to make love to in her extra hour but Juanita ha... nobody. Juanita had stepped way outside her comfort zone to see if I would share that extra hour with her. It was the first time either of us had made love in years and it meant more to me than any time before.I woke up to find her gone.I searched for months but it was as if she had vanished from the earth. I even tried calling a few maintenance. ”“I need to go back to the depot and send a telegram to them and tell them when we’ll be there, and be sure they save us some rooms,” Eli said and jumped up from the table.“We better start packing then, today’s Friday,” Clarissa said.Eli went out and saddled his stud then rode back across the river to the depot. When he walked in the depot, the telegraph operator looked up and smiled.“You forget something, Marshal?”“I need to telegraph The Wyandotte Hotel in Kansas City and tell them to hold. I glanced down; the contrast of her white skin against my duskiness was thrilling. “N-No,” I whimpered again; but I stilled, surrendering, once more aroused in spite of myself. “Very well.” The lithe, auburn-haired Huntress abruptly rolled off, laid beside me once more. “When you are ready.” All at once, I felt an inexplicable sense of loss. I looked at her pale face; obscured as it was by three diagonal slashes of purplish war paint, I could not discern her expression in the feeble light,. Her skirt was good quality and well-tailored and showed it to perfection. “Wouldn’t you like to see that pert little rump bobbing around the office?”I nodded in reply, not trusting myself to speak.“So, what do you say, Hire or Fire?” she asked using the catchphrase of a popular TV programme.Suddenly there was little doubt in my mind. I really did need a competent pair of hands around the office to take some of the workload as, I had to admit, it was getting too much for me. In addition, having.