Rhizomania, or The Cavalry Gun

In our last episode, we left Doran Strassel, early one morning at Shorty's place, eating breakfast (carefully) in his dress-up clothes before he goes off to see sugar beet baron John Sayre about working off an unjust debt.  And that's where the story will freeze till Thanksgiving week. We pick up on Tuesday, November 26. . . in podcast mode~! Yep,  Rhizomania  is becoming a podcast. Because digital media is about adapting to current needs.  There will be a reminder a week before  Rhizomania  goes into audio mode. 

"We got to get this Sayre situation taken care of, though," said Shorty.  As a compromise, a note was given to Frank's wfe Maybelle, who'd stopped by Shorty's house on her way down to the Spanish Store. She had plans to spend her afternoon doing some sewing with Hortencia Lujan, and Hortencia's son Cesario would convey the note to his employer, making sure that Doran's planned visit would be a welcome one.  If the answer was no, Cesario would tell his mother and his mother would tell Maybelle and Maybelle would tell Frank to come down and stop Doran before he got to Sayre's place. Once this awkward arrangement was set in place, it was time for Doran, Shorty and Frank to get busy in the hay field.  Frank, surveying the long, narrow field which sloped down the gentle hill from his own ranch to Short's, scanned the windrows of raked hay. Each stripe in the field had gone from green to pale yellow as the hay, turned over two days after the cu