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Legally Brunette: Western Attorney
Chapter 5: The First Tumbleweed Connection

Chapter 5: The First Tumbleweed Connection

"Well well well," Lonesome Cowboy Larry squeaked in his high voice.

He placed his cowboy boot on the defendant table and another ripping sound ensued. He ignored it and continued his snide prosecution. "So the truth comes out. This little fillie cursed our dirty old town from the moment she set foot in it! And who did she take her anger out on? Her poor old poppa!"

Priscilla's simmered still simmered a bright red, looking like she wanted to punch Larry out–as unladylike as it was.

The old judge spoke and how jowls wobbled as he did. "Why I never in a thousand years could imagine such a sweet girl doing something so morally despicable. The fact she was caught with the poison in her hand too. I hate to say it, little lady, but things are not looking good for y'all!"

Priscilla's pupils shrank and she held her gloves to her cheeks. Her eyes turned to Ruby with a look of utmost panic.

Ruby too was silent. Something didn't seem right at all.

Colonel Slanders eyed the young defense attorney. "Well, Missy attorney, I like to be fair to such a fair lady like you, but if you don't have any further objections or evidence I'm gonna have to slap this girl with a guilty verdict so hard it makes those curly twirly pigtails spin…"

Frantically, Ruby's gaze darted around the room until she saw Nathaniel. A clever smirk was on his face and she noticed his eyes turn to Priscilla.

Almost instantly it hit her.

She remembered one of his old sayings that were likely stolen from some Chinese proverb: "While lies take hard work, the truth is effortless."

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Indeed, Prissy held the key and this turnabout was in the bag.

"Your honor," Ruby answered at last. "I have a question to ask the prosecution and also yourself. And I believe my client can answer it with very little effort."

"What is it?" the Colonel judge asked. "Please enlighten us, little missy attorney!"

Ruby cast her finger towards Larry with a knowing smile. "Answer me this. Why is Priscilla even here? The Wild Wild West doesn't exactly match up with jolly old England."

"That's a good question, Slanders answered. "It's clear this little varmint has no interest in being with us country folk. The question is why?"

Priscilla turned her nose in the air. "You got that right, peasa…err…I mean your honor! I'd rather be sipping English tea, not this yechy overly sweet tea and feasting on sweet hot cross buns not grits and gravy!"

Once more, Priscilla moved her hand to feign fainting.

"But my daddy took me away. First, we moved to New York, but men in fedoras and cigars kept harassing my poppa with threats. Then one day, he said we had to bloody move again!"

The judge looked at Larry, a look of disbelief was on their face. "Men in fedoras and cigars? Do you mean to say your father was mixed in with the mob?!"

"I dunno!" Priscilla answered. "But even here too. Strange cowboys have been accosting him. Then one night he went out to that lowlife bar, I followed him and saw those cowboys were talking to this weird snake woman waitress about dealing with my poppa once and for all!"

The crowd was entirely silent, but some nodded.

Even in a shady western town, the truth could ring loud and true like a bell.

"Well then…" Slanders answered. "That is quite the development, little missy. Maybe you should have said that to start with before we started resorting to old wives gossip!"

Priscilla smiled at Ruby.

Even if they should have said that to start, there was finally a sense of calm in the courtroom.

"Hee hee hee!"

The silence was shattered by a weasel-like laugh.

Larry began to snicker and point at Priscilla. "Y'all just fell into my trap, little fillie. The very waitress in question offered to testify AGAINST YOU! And unlike that old cow, she saw the murder first hand!"

Ruby puffed out her cheeks in anger and scowled. "Looks like this town ain't big enough for both of these testimonies, Larry" she said like she was a true Texan.

But she shuddered in fear when she saw the next witness. She was much scarier in the daylight.