All The World's A Stage

To Live and Die in Texorami

Jamie started talking, you see. Some say she talks too much, but hey, someone has to make up for that Ambrose.

So I'm Jamie "Blue" Diamond, "Lucky" Jack's little sister. I run a riverboat casino he won for me in a card game - I call it My Brother's Keeper. I tried to hire some nutman with a shaved head (Dagger) to work my security for the Big Game which I was determined to have on my boat, and Mean Mitch McGee, but Mitch got very drunk all the time, and showed up at the Saloon holding a towel around him with one hand and a gun in the other. I was a little drunk myself by then (only being the type of girl who gets drunk every once in awhile but then kinda badly) so I covered my eyes, and only tried to peak a little. That sweet little bartender that don't talk none, Ambrose, he blocked my view though, so I didn't get to see a thing. And it seems there was a lot to see because you can't hold a towel, a gun, and a drink, ya know?

But anyway, then I had to fire him for being a drunk all the time. People must of thought I was a little crazy, firing Mean Mitch, but I didn't figure getting fired was a good reason to kill someone, especially if no one was paying him too, and he got a big advance anyway. I got the Big Game over that old lady with the other Riverboat because Jack went and paid off the mayor or something, won't even let me take care of myself.

But then Jack had to go and have him a towel tailor-made to embarrass Mitch, and Mitch was coming for him right after Jack just got me my brand new hat, and I thought, "Well here goes. Mitch is gonna try to shoot Jack, and I'm gonna have to jump in the way, and my new hat is just gonna be ruined." Mitch got a little loopy when Jack told him it was funny, just laughing and laughing and not stopping, and Jack then passed right out, from relief that Mean Mitch hadn't shot him, I guess.

After that Mean Mitch went straight and stopped his drinking and wore the clothes I'd bought him, so he could work for me again. We had the big game on my boat then. No one blew my boat up, which I tried to make sure by not letting them sneak any weapons or gunpowder or the like on my boat. No one will give me any insurance on that boat, sure those boys are going to blow it up sometime. They probably will, but I'm saving my earnings so I can get another when they do.

Oh, and there was those rumors that started about me because Random thought I was too drunk and carried me upstairs and locked me up and didn't even stay! I'm very unhappy everyone thinks I'm a tart or somethin' when I didn't even get a kiss nor nothin' from him. Jack says Random must like me a lot, because he's never done that before. I think Jack's a little confused about what "likes" means, but he did get me a hat, so I won't argue with him, not just now, anyhow.