In the night she leaves without telling anyone. Including her husband. She and Barclay left. a few weeks later she left for Australia but in Panama she left her husband for the horse trainer (for the show) that she met and hired in Virginia named Barclay.
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Sam resigned his commission
after roiling the high-society types, he resigns his commission as a notary public in Virginia City MTIVC pg 180 Sam writes a mostly harmless April Fools day hoax that is bashed in the Evening Bulletin – some people in VC really don’t like the bohemian pranksters
Joe Goodman returns from Hawaii
other papers had been reporting on the duo as if they were news MTIVC pg 185 they were even reporting on each other, accidents they had on horses, boxing lessons they took, fencing lessons.