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some of the sights. We will just have to make the best of it.”
    “Alright child, I am praying that this trip is what you hope it to be.” Rosa got up and started frying bacon and poured more coffee in her cup.
    Christian didn’t get up until six thirty, when he came into the kitchen. He took a long whiff of the biscuits and bacon. Though breakfast was already made and on the table it was still warm. He timed this morning just right. It was going to be a long day with the trip to Jefferson City and back and then to shipyard for the rest of day and most of the evening.
    “What is that delicious smell?” Christian asked as he poured his coffee. “It smells so wonderful, I think I could eat everything you made.”
    “Well Cassandra and I better get our plates ready then before you eat it all. Rosa said with a laugh. “I made plenty, some to take on the trip with us if you don’t eat it all.”
    “Rosa, you know he has a bottomless pit in there,” laughed Cassandra.
    Cassandra looked at scenery along the road to Jefferson City. Looking at the countryside was one of her favorite past time. Sometimes she would just go for a horse ride for hours and watch the animals or relax along the bank of the Missouri river.
    Jefferson City came into view to quick. Soon they would be heading west to a new chapter in Cassandra’s life. Was she ready for all this, Cassandra didn’t know. This is her life though and she was going to make the best of it. Cassandra thought to herself,
Lord, if I have a family in Colorado, please let them like me.

CHAPTER FOUR
     
    Thomas Delaney, Cassandra and Rosa got off the train in Denver. The place was buzzing with people everywhere. Cassandra looked around the train depot.
    “Mr. Delaney, do you know where we will be staying?” Cassandra asked the detective.
    “Yes, I wired ahead and made reservations at the best Hotel in Denver. The Rose Garden, you won’t find a nicer place or people. I reserved a suite for you and Rose with a small parlor and separate bedrooms. I will have a room next to your suite ladies.” Thomas told the women about the hotel as he whistled for a train boy to deliver their trunks to the Hotel.
    The rest of the day Cassandra and Rosa went shopping. Things was much different than back East. The women even dressed different. Some of the women walked around town with pants on instead of dresses. Cassandra liked being here. She felt comfortable among these people even though she knew none of them.
    They walked into a place called Millers Mercantile. The store was filled with a lot of things for the outdoors. There were rows of barrels with different tags on them describing what was inside. Shelves filled bolts of material, some of the material Cassandra had never seen before. It was heavy cloth. Cassandra saw the dresses hanging on the rack in the back of the store. They were different from what she was used to.
    Cassandra thought that there was no way a person could get all the petty coats under the dress. They were so pretty though, she wanted to purchase one.
    “Rosa, look at this dress, how does one wear it and fit all these underthings under it?” Cassandra talked to Rosa in a low voice so that the other customers didn’t hear her.
    “Cassandra girl, women out here don’t wear all those crazy things. Women prefer to be comfortable over being all bundled up so that they can’t breathe. A lot of the women out West have to help work for a living. They help with all the chores and they wouldn’t be able to do a thing with all those layers of clothing.”
    “How lucky they are, to be able to breathe. Hum, Rosa, I think I might try wearing one or two these while I am here. I like this one, what do you think Rosa. Would I look good in this one?”
    Cassandra chose a light green dress, it was fitted at the top with a lower neck line than she had ever worn. The sleeves were long and the bottom was straight. No ruffles or lace, just a plain bottom large enough to walk