O'Riley from Julesburg had agreed to officiate at THE WEDDING. Wedding invitations had been sent out and almost everyone had said to expect them for t...e wedding and the reception bar-b-que and dance to follow. We were going to be pressed for space, but we could accommodate everybody with only a little crowding.Of course, all of the ranch employees and their families would be there. Unfortunately, all eighteen of the dragoons would have to be assigned to guard duty—we did not want any untoward. " He said going to the bar and ordering us a drink."Try a little rum and coke." He said handing me one. We drank several of them and I was feeling no pain. We began talking, acting a little goofy and talked of old times. They had been playing country music all evening and we were trying to sing along."Come on, let's find someone to dance with." He said looking around.As I looked around, I noticed the club was full. There were probably seventy or eighty people in the bar at this time. I could. In less than a decade, it was the third largest city in the land, which was beginning to make the top two very nervous.”“That doesn’t bode well.”Ikuno shook her head, “No it didn’t, first they leaned on the King of the land where Te’thalas was located to do something, up till now he had been happily collecting the city’s taxes but when he marched his army to the city to ‘restore order’ he realized his mistake. Te’thalas was made up almost entirely of immigrants who had no loyalty to the kingdom. Shediscovered she was still in the shirt and jeans but she held theblankets up against her."Well, ma'am, I guess you slept through it. We had a helluva storm lastnight, short but pretty intense. The bridge into town is washed out andthe telephone lines must be down too. Lucky we still got power." You got a cell phone?' she asked but he shook his head. "No receptionout here, this far from town so we never bothered. So it looks likeyou're stuck here for a week at least. I could drive you the long.