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This is an adaptation of a story I started several years ago with Pickle Chiffon Pie who no longer writes here and whose contribution to the story cannot be separated from mine and is gratefully acknowledged.
Lieutenant Robert Walker was a rough soldier, A man's man, but even more a lady's man. His broad shoulders, chiseled features, and rough rider attitude attracted attention from from nearly every female in rifle range. He was fun-loving, but a serious soldier, and in a fight was more feared than a grizzly bear. He like to drink, maybe too much for his own good.
That particular day, he was on his way back to Dodge City when he encountered the stage. It was off the road with horses missing, the strong box gone and luggage strewn everywhere. He found several dead and one young woman wounded and unconscious, Elizabeth McCan He did not know it but this was a discovery that would change his life forever. That day marked the beginning of their life together that was to end this day in the doctors office in Dodge when the good doctor was faced with two tragedies, having delivered Elizabeth a healthy baby for which she gave her life he had a healthy baby with a dead mother and a grieving and confused father in one room while in the other a young woman faced a far different situation.
Nelly McTavish was just 17 when she made the acquaintance of a young soldier at the Fort. They had fallen in love quickly and lacked the restraint that ought to have been shown. Frightened, the young man had requested transfer to another post and left the young girl to deal with being pregnant and alone . Her family had thrown her out as they considered her a disgrace and so it was that she found herself totally alone and delivering a baby that day. Her body had prepared itself for the child and she had been leaking milk for more than a week when she arrived at the doctors office that day in labor. However, the baby had been born dead, and now having carried the child she was about to be sent away still disgraced, penniless, and empty handed.
It was then that the good doctor went to speak with the Sargent and see if he might be willing to make an arrangement whereby his child would be offered the care of a woman able to nurse it and that young woman might be cared for and spared from further disgrace and poverty.
The Sargent was a good man, and even beyond that he well recognized his shortcomings when the care of a child was concerned and so consented to make the young woman just such an offer.
Lieutenant Robert Walker was a rough soldier, A man's man, but even more a lady's man. His broad shoulders, chiseled features, and rough rider attitude attracted attention from from nearly every female in rifle range. He was fun-loving, but a serious soldier, and in a fight was more feared than a grizzly bear. He like to drink, maybe too much for his own good.
That particular day, he was on his way back to Dodge City when he encountered the stage. It was off the road with horses missing, the strong box gone and luggage strewn everywhere. He found several dead and one young woman wounded and unconscious, Elizabeth McCan He did not know it but this was a discovery that would change his life forever. That day marked the beginning of their life together that was to end this day in the doctors office in Dodge when the good doctor was faced with two tragedies, having delivered Elizabeth a healthy baby for which she gave her life he had a healthy baby with a dead mother and a grieving and confused father in one room while in the other a young woman faced a far different situation.
Nelly McTavish was just 17 when she made the acquaintance of a young soldier at the Fort. They had fallen in love quickly and lacked the restraint that ought to have been shown. Frightened, the young man had requested transfer to another post and left the young girl to deal with being pregnant and alone . Her family had thrown her out as they considered her a disgrace and so it was that she found herself totally alone and delivering a baby that day. Her body had prepared itself for the child and she had been leaking milk for more than a week when she arrived at the doctors office that day in labor. However, the baby had been born dead, and now having carried the child she was about to be sent away still disgraced, penniless, and empty handed.
It was then that the good doctor went to speak with the Sargent and see if he might be willing to make an arrangement whereby his child would be offered the care of a woman able to nurse it and that young woman might be cared for and spared from further disgrace and poverty.
The Sargent was a good man, and even beyond that he well recognized his shortcomings when the care of a child was concerned and so consented to make the young woman just such an offer.
