Well if Stella did find her love it wasn't going to be David.Stella had spent her life being chased by the young colts in Laredo (sometimes literally0 and she managed to put a few minutes between her and David.
She needed to find a hideout till she could sort out the strange new thoughts running through her head.Women should be able to vote,women should be able to own property,women should take up their axes and smash up Laredo's taverns.
Yep,womens lib had come to town.
Laredo was like the old tent cities in the yukon gold rush towns,and there were plenty of alleys and twists and turns that a newbie like David could get lost in.
Stella finally quieted down when she saw that David was falling back and then she trotted down a alleyway beside the church and slowly worked her way into the seedier part of town.
Where was she goona hide.The Fenton hideout of course.She slowly headed in the direction she thought it would be and came upon a row of seedy boarding houses that also served as the red light district.
What a great place for Stella Flycatcher to find her true calling.
Luckily the boys drifting around were looking for something on two legs rather then four.
Stella was just another animal and they paid never no mind when the Jenny leapt through the window of one boarded up house.The Fenton hideout.
Stella now had the luxury of time and doubted that any amorous donkey suitor could pick out her smell in the ocean of cheap perfume that was assaulting her nostrils.
Doc Drusilla Fenton might be gone,but she had left her legacy.
There was the usual castration knives,firepower and pamphlets on the evils of drinking.Stella needed something more if she was going to set Laredo on its head.
She heard a bang in one of the other rooms and trotted in to investigate.
The wind (or maybe a rat) had knocked a vase of flowers onto the wooden floor.The water was pouring through the floorboards and Stella could feel a cold draft come up from the boards.
She nudged at the boards with her hoof and wasn't surprised when they came loose and revealed a tunnel .She stuck her head down and noticed wooden crates and books stacked down there.
She slowly lowered her body into the tunnel and went to investigate.