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Learn more- Sheriff Nell was no kill-joy and she didn't want to interfere with any of the innocent joys of Triggerville, but it did annoy her to have a gun fight break out on the day she baked pies. It was this way; Honest-eyed Jack and Black Pete, the scoundrel, were rivals for Nell's fair hand. Jack loved her for herself and her pies; Pete because he calculated to throw the law off his trail by marrying the sheriff. Hack had that morning won the lady's hand. Jealous Pete had followed him back to the thirst emporium where Jack waited on Triggerville's Four Hundred- An insult. A gun fight. Leaving her pies, Nell rushes to the place; calms the storm and forces the rivals to make up. But Pete' s wicked heart still gnaws at him. He gets Honest-eyed Jack into a poker game. Jack had an extra ace tethered out for emergencies, but the treacherous Pete sneaked it away and the little honeymoon love cot went into Pete's pocket. But Nell was a resolute woman. Hearing of the disaster, she walked straight to Pete's table and said, "Pete, I'll take a hand and remember you won't steal any aces from little Nell." And so the roses came back into Jack's future again. With the deed back in her pocket, Nell bustles over to the honeymoon cottage and applies a broom to the dust. Jack was as honest as a very short day is long, out Jack was no housekeeper. But in the midst of her labors the door opened and a woman entered. She was all dolled up in furs and everything. Reader, we shudder to tell you who this woman is. The truth is, if you must know, that Jack had been on the matrimonial remnant counter for some time, he was the oldest and most faithful customer of the matrimonial agencies but alas, without result. By an irony of fate, the agency finally found him a bride on the day that Sheriff Nell accepted him. Yea reader, but this is not all. Desperate over the loss of his deed and the matrimonial cottage, Jack tried to hold up the five o'clock stage, not knowing that Pete had already held it up and cleaned the passengers. But it all comes right in the end. Nell discovers the duplicity of Pete, and personally leads a posse to capture him. There is a wild and hair-raising chase, with Nell's cow punchers in pursuit of the mounted bandits. Pete is brought to earth at last and Jack and Nell renew their love.
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