However, they have other motives besides homesteading and operating a B&B. The Benders claim a strategic location close to the Osage Trail. Coming to an arrangement, they decide to operate a grocery and an inn near Cherryvale, Kansas. In 1870, Kate and Almira meet the Benders, an older man and his son. Even when two marshals come around investigating a disappearance, Kate doesn’t speak up, for she’d been told by her papa never to cooperate with the law. Kate assists Almira in her unsavory activities while waiting for her father. The stranger deposits Kate with Almira – a harlot – in a mining camp. However, one morning in Denver, her father hands her over to a stranger, whispering that she should play along as if the stranger has won her in a card game, and he will come soon for her. While her papa is busy gambling, she learns by reading magazines and novels from the hotels’ collections and asking the other guests and bellhops about the meanings of words. In 1857, six-year-old Kate lives with her father in “borrowed rooms” while traveling through towns southwest of Chicago.
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