The Treasure Hunters Of Old San Francisco
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A woman living in the Klondike Territory decides to head down to San Francisco after getting an apparently legitimate treasure map from a local character, and when she determines that her theoretical claim is real, she runs into a charming but shady character laying claim to the very same piece of real estate, which happens to lie under the cold waters of the bay.
Joyce Melbourne
Joyce Melbourne lives in Southern California with her husband, numerous animals, and an unkempt garden, which she loves. She's been interested in romance and all of its sub genres for many years.
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The Treasure Hunters Of Old San Francisco - Joyce Melbourne
The Treasure Hunters Of Old San Francisco
By
Joyce Melbourne
Copyright 2015 Enduring Hope & Love Press
Synopsis: A woman living in the Klondike Territory decides to head down to San Francisco after getting an apparently legitimate treasure map from a local character, and when she determines that her theoretical claim is real, she runs into a charming but shady character laying claim to the very same piece of real estate, which happens to lie under the cold waters of the bay.
Tuesday, February 2, 1849
Klondike Region—Evening
Clinton Creek Home of Clarrisa Pierre
Yukon Territory, Canada
Twenty-six year old dark-brunette Clarrisa Pierre paced the floor of her one room cabin waiting anxiously, clutching the last of her life's savings while waiting for old Aramis Fairbanks to show up. She didn't think he'd show up.
She placed her hands on her high forehead and brushed her curly dark-brunette locks over her bangs. Several reasons for Aramis not showing crossed her mind. One, her high forehead advertised the Native American heritage mixed in with her curly dark-brunette French hair and slanted eyebrows.
Third generation ivory skin tones Klondike woman like herself would surely pass as full European outside of Yukon, Canada. Inside Yukon, Klondike, Canada, and everyone knew Native American women and lonely Canadian men had been mixing together for some seventy-five years now.
Two, sixty-five year old Aramis shuffled one foot before the other slowly, patently. His legs still moving as he used to swim while cave diving off the California coast. In contrast, Yukon, Klondike, Canada lay far north of California though, an entirely different terrain, environment.
Three, Clarrisa possessed an intelligent mind, a busty, Amazonian hourglass shape and had no marriage prospects. He might fear being tempted to uncontrollable behavior. He was a God-fearing man.
Four, she had plenty of sex prospects, especially in the one saloon down in Dawson. But Clarrisa hated saloons which Aramis sometimes frequented telling his exciting tales of adventure.
Five, she studied ballet before her thirty-six year old private teacher, Jacques Lerfervre, moved back to Paris. She was cultured and Aramis was a low-middle class explorer and runabout. Her mom and dad died five years ago, having had her at a late age of thirty-six. Clarrisa was their wonder child.
The only reason Aramis might show up, Clarrisa thought as her red and white striped dress of Canadian's colors swished against her cabin floor getting dirty, was she loved collecting old maps, too. Aramis had a special old map to show her. He said it contained a treasure he was too old to claim now. A treasure he wanted to give to someone worthy of it. She qualified as worthy in his mind.
Clarrisa wore her best outfit. The dress had a one-inch, solid red, ruffled hem. She wore her white background black cameo necklace on the black band around her slender neck. Her medium size feet wore dark-red Cupola boots that laced nine inches up her lower leg. The two and half inch heel made walking on cobblestones or the non-existent roads of Klondike, Yukon, Canada easy.
Classy black spats and shoe coverings not only completed her worthy look, but also extended the life of her only pair of shoes.
If he doesn't show up, I'll just go find him,
she muttered to herself in her fruity-husky voice. The statement sounded like a plea for help if one over heard the seductive tone. Clarrisa never affected the fruity-husky tone to manipulate others; her words just came out that way.
Husky, sexy, open, fruitful, fertile, flirty.
Short, five feet, five inch Aramis was known for disappearing for weeks at a time. No one knew where he went or from where he returned. He showed up wearing that skullish grin on his wrinkled-leathery complexion face. He'd be wearing black work pants, his favorite dull gray shirt and no tie around his open shirt collar. His heavy fur coat reminded her of pictures of mountain men who also disappeared for weeks into the tundra of America and Canada.
Her natural-salmon pink lips trembled. This opportunity to