Last Chance Hotel Room 871 & Room 873

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Room 871 & Room 873

By James C. Garland

Grandpa Donaldson was looking forward to this trip. It had been a long time since he was able to take a vacation with all the long hours he put in as a Locomotive Engineer for the Northern Pacific. And he had not been to this part of the country in a long spell. Grandpa Donaldson needed this vacation going back as far as he could remember as he kept putting off a vacation for many years. But he wasn't getting any younger and it wouldn't hurt to take time off. After all Grandpa Donaldson not only felt he needed it but he deserved it.

All that was left was to arrange to hitch a ride with a company train as far south as he could go, then rent a car as he got closer to his destination to where he wanted to spend time with relatives and old friends he had not seen in years. In fact, one of his friends was an old cowboy named "Buckaroo". "Buckaroo" spent most of his time working at the local theater as an assistant manager and his sidekick "Boo". "Buckaroo" and "Boo" would dress up as "Buckaroo" being the local law and "Boo" being a local train robber.

They would spend time doing the local charity events and sometimes even venture out of town on occasion once or twice a year. Boo had a Russian last name so it was hard most of the time for people to believe he could be a train robber, less well a cowboy. But Boo fooled them all as he was one of the best train robbers in the Pacific West. "Buckaroo" and "Boo" made a perfect pair, as the law and the lawless.

They were looking forward to meeting up with Grandpa Donaldson as neither one of them had seen him in years. To talk about old times and catch up with the present time. But all three of them had this one thing they could not quite figure out yet. As they were sent an anonymous invitation for them to check into "Room 871 & Room 873" on June 30th, in the hotel across the street from the theater. And it had to be that date or the deal was off. As they were offered a great sum of money to do it and if they followed through they would be paid for their effort. If not, oh well! It could not be on June 29th or July 1st. It had to be June 30th or no deal.

All three agreed to this upcoming adventure on June 30th in "Room 871 & Room 873" and could not wait to see what was going to happen. As all three of them in their younger years were know to be daredevils and would take any dare someone would dare them to do. This was a challenge they looked forward to accomplishing, they just couldn't figure out yet the reason for that particular date in June and on June 30th at that for that matter. But they would be ready for the challenge as soon as the three them got together and as soon as Grandpa Donaldson made his arrival to this little town in the Pacific North West...

To be continued....

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