Brice Saunders and Rebecca Tarlington Part Six: Passion Sunset



"I don't want to see it Rebecca just close the lid and let's the box out of here if you please," Brice was thinking she only wanted to gloat and he didn't care to see smugness on her face as if she won a great victory. "Brice please come here and take a look it's not what you think at all," Brice walked over and saw it, rocks and a single handgun was inside the box, Brice picked up the gun and began examining it, he pulled the loader down and began to see if it was loaded it had five bullets inside two had been fired but there was an empty chamber he had heard of this where the men from back then would leave the one chamber empty so they could leave enough money to be buried with in it. When he got the paper out of the chamber and opened it up he noticed that it was a small note written as a small poem, he read it aloud so Rebecca could grasp what it said. "If your looking for our gold, you'll find the old clues are cold, my partner and me done got it moved, silver city will have the clue, in a place that's no one knew, find my grave or at least the stone, and read my epitaph and be gone. J.T." Brice knew who had written it without even thinking about it, "Your grandfather moved it with a partner so you know what that means?" Rebecca was trembling her worst fears were true, her family wasn't being disgraced they were recieving the sins of her grandfather he was a thief and a member of the gang then who was the snitch, who was selling secrets of the gang to the agency, "Brice I didn't know or realize until now he was a thief after all he knew where the gold was hidden he just kept it secret from the agency and we don't have to go to Silver City I know what the epitaph says. She cleared her throat feeling a bit more brave and said it from memory, "Here lies John Tarlington, he loved Silver City but his home was California Rockies, by Saunders Lake," when I was a child we went to the place he called Saunders lake it is by another name but that's the clue I'll bet the gold is near Saunders lake by the old cabin." Brice had heard enough the put the old pistol in Rebecca's hands and turned to walk, Rebecca followed in a near run. "Well are you going to see this through or do I do it on my own?" Brice laughed "I'm done there is no gold can't you tell where do you think my grand father got the money to open up a clock works where do you think they had the money to buy the lake add it up you aren't dumb." Rebecca was hit like a revelation he was right they wouldn't have had that kind of money to do all that unless they used the gold and this was just another detour, but she was willing to go through with it, "Listen one more time and we'll keep the gold if we find it I promise." Brice stopped closed his eyes, raised his head to the sky, and his lips got tight together, "You cannot be serious, even if we do find anything it's more than half gone by now it's hard to say how much there was even when they stole it." Rebecca was very serious, "Listen I'm willing to go through with this I don't need the gold to show how much worth I can be to the agency this poem will do that just go through with it as equal partners." Brice looked at her he could see where her eyes had been tearing up and desperate look in her face now and she was shivering from cold, excitement, and anxiety, and his heart softened, "Very well but we keep the gold we share it even fifty fifty, understood?" Rebecca couldn't contain herself she flung herself upon him kissing him and wrapping her arms around his neck, it surprised her because he was kissing her in return she felt a passion awaken from within her but he pulled away, "Listen Rebecca let's just finish this and then we'll talking about going any further." She agreed and took off walking again back to the car. Twenty-two hours later they were in Northern California on their way to Saunders lake, they stopped for the night at a road side hotel, and were sitting by the pool watching the sun go down, it was a beautiful sunset deep reds and orange like it was fire. "You know Rebecca your a really good kisser." She was a little embarrassed for her lack of control, but she just answered him. "Your not too bad yourself."

To Be Concluded...