<strong>Sam Markham...Day 2</strong><br/><br/>Sam gave a withering glare in the direction of the man who had interrupted his conversation with the comely bar tender.  Then he turned his attention in the direction of the young woman who had just joined them at the bar from one of the rooms.  Her presence was welcomed as she seemed polite at least, and very pretty too. She and the bar tender seemed to know each other.<br/><br/>He muttered to himself, “Quite a welcoming establishment we got here...yes sir...free water served before paid for libations...ain’t that something.<br/><br/>Once Cameron, he thought she’d been called, had been tended to by her friend behind the bar Sam cleared his throat and said in a loud voice that he hoped would return the bar tender to him to finish their interrupted conversation.<br/><br/>“In answer to your accusation...yeah I am...new to you...new here too and ahead in line of the gentleman to my right. If it’s not too much trouble ma’am I’d like a beer...if you got some...whisky and a water back if you don’t and a room for the next few nights.  Any of those rooms upstairs available?  Oh and you got a place where a guy can rid himself of three days of trail dust?”<br/><br/>He gave her a thorough once over.  It had been sometime since he’d come across a woman as pretty as she with some spunk.  He liked that a lot. Even in her apparent ‘morning after’ distress she was a mighty fine looking woman.<br/><br/>He leaned in closer to her, “Was it a celebration or a wake Miss?  I hope it was the former.  I reckon that somehow the latter would get me some more work to do.”<br/><br/>He smiled at her.  He was definitely attracted to her. He would bet anyone that she was more than fine in the morning to wake up to.  He shrugged as he silently chided himself for being so crude about a woman he knew next to nothing about.  He’d definitely been too long without a woman.<br/><br/>“The name, if you need it, is Sam Markham.  You got one too I bet.  You mind sharing it so I don’t have to call you ‘the bar wench’ when I let your boss know how helpful you’ve been?”<br/>