Ted had just left work and decided to go ask Jacy if she would like to have supper with him. He knew she had been having a hard time working at the saloon, and he had suggested paying her fine to get her out of the situation, but she had declined. She didn�t want to look like a failure. She had told him that all she needed was a spark of an idea to get the people back into the saloon and away from the bordello.

Ted had been trying to think of something to help her out, but unfortunately he was having trouble with thinking of any good ideas. "Hi Jacy," Ted said as he walked up to Jacy sulking at her table.

Half heatedly she replied, "Hello." Ted sat down and studied the young beautiful lady. He liked her more when she was happy and had a big smile on her face. Lately that was too few and far between.

"No luck with any ideas, huh?" Ted was concerned for his friend.

"Nope." Jacy replied.

"Well, maybe some different scenery would help." Ted suggested.

"What do you have in mind?" She couldn�t go riding because Melissa had Braids.

"Supper at the hotel," Ted studied her face as he invited her.

Jacy was depressed, but she knew she shouldn�t be like this when Ted was trying to cheer her up, so she looked him in the face and smiled. She looked around the saloon. Desiree and Ivy were talking at the bar, and Richard was cleaning mugs. There wasn�t any customers, and there hadn�t been any all day. Richard could handle the saloon if anybody ventured inside. "Alright, let�s go." Jacy stood and headed for the door. As she passed Richard she said, "You�re in charge, Richard."

Richard looked up from his task and nodded. He didn�t smile. He was thinking in charge of what, but he didn�t know Miss Jacy very well. Since she started being in charge of the saloon along with Jimmy, she didn�t talk to him much except to ask him a few questions about the saloon or ask him to do something. So he didn�t want to get her mad by just kidding around, so he didn�t say what he was thinking.

Ted escorted Jacy over to the hotel, and Laura was surprised when they came in together. Laura had only known Ted to eat in the dining room with Walter and that was very seldom. She greeted them and led them to a table.

Ted and Jacy ordered, and Jacy told Ted about her very slow week. She especially told him about last weekend when the saloon should have been full on Friday and Saturday night.

They also discussed Lara�s mysterious disappearance, and how the establishment only had one saloon girl now. Jacy had heard from Tyson that he had asked Teaspoon to check it out for him.

Sheriff Teaspoon didn�t find Lara. He had rode over to Broken Bow, and the sheriff, Bill Trevors helped him learn that Lara had spoken with a woman in the hotel. Sheriff Teaspoon tried to find the lady that Lara had talked with, but he had no such luck. The owner of the Wagon Wheel Hotel had told Teaspoon that the lady had checked out the day after Lara had made her visit. By talking with the stable owner at the end of town, the sheriff learned that the lady had left alone by riding her horse out of town.

The only other thing that Teaspoon learned about the lady was her name, Melody Cramer, and because he couldn�t find Lara�s horse or any foul play, he decided that Lara must have decided not to come back to Dreamville, and that�s what he had told Tyson. Tyson hadn�t believed it though because Lara had left all her things, but he didn�t have time to go looking for stray saloon girls.