Comin' 'Round The Mountain - Ch. 1
After that... interesting anecdote, and briefly tending to your animals and their mess, you make your way back through an empty sleeper car, then on-by the bulk of the other passengers spread out amongst the two passenger cars without encountering the young Mr Stearn.
!!SUDDENLY!!
Call it luck, chalk it up to experience, a sixth sense or what-have-you, but as Eugene opens the door to the dining car he jerks his head sharply to the right while simultaneously raising a hand in a wild fit, as if swatting away a biting horsefly. A slight wet sensation on the back of the old prospector's hand immediately precedes Ignatius getting whapped right in the schnoz with a soaring spoonful of warm grits! Holding wooden spoons, both twin boys stare wide-eyed at y'all from a few tables down on your left. Time stands still for both you and the Wilson clan.
Reality resumes when the pair of hellions break into a raucous childish cackling, right before Rick and Jenny start in on an angry ruckus that mostly takes place underneath the table of their booth, which is where the boys have disappeared to. Insults, threats and a good deal of spankin' sounds erupt from the swirling melee. Things only a frontier father could dream up. Things only a mother of twins could curse somebody with.
You decide it best to press on and find the conductor, at least for now. "Ham" Buchanan unceremoniously hands Ignatius a clean dish rag as you two move past the bar counter and to the rear door.
When you exit the dining car at the far end, you catch sight of Conductor Stearn and Mr. Allan Seyberth talking as you make your way through the car doors. You could see Stearn shaking his head as he returned his keys to his belt, and both men look to you as you enter the baggage car. "I trust that unseemly mess up front was dealt with?" Stearn asks of you. You're standing in a small ante-room of sorts between the door into the baggage car and a wall with a locked door behind the other two men where all the baggage and cargo is securely stowed. It's roughly the size of a walk-in closet, it's fairly loud with track noise, and it's not surprising how uncomfortable it is for 4 grown men that aren't well acquainted.