Re: Episode 3: Alive or Preferably Dead
A couple hours past midnight, the small caravan of buckboards and horses made its way to Dodge City, carrying most of the passengers that had been scheduled to arrive earlier that night by way of the Union Blue railroad. They had followed the railroad tracks on their way in to avoid getting lost in the dark, and to take the most direct route, and the journey was far less problematic than the one by train had been. Late at night, the town seemed to be fairly dead, though as they pulled up by the Railroad Depot, some light spilled out from the shutters of the Occident Saloon across the street and the sounds of merriment, intoxication and some drunken singing drifted out into the night.
Radcliffe had come to not long before their arrival, but bound and gagged as he had been left, his contribution to the remainder of the evening had been marginal. Clutching a letter given them by the Union Blue guards, one of the Kinsley men that had driven the other wagons wandered up to the doors of the depot and knocked to collect the remainder of the payment promised for the drop.