Teenage orphan Arley Pickett runs her deceased parents’ boarding house in gone-bust Grubstake, where her main source of comfort is the monthly arrival of her Penny Dreadful novels.
Then the train brings a fast-talking dude buying up all the played-out mines. Though her boarders grab the cash, Arley refuses to sell her father’s Never Mind Mine where he had accidentally blown himself up with newfangled dynamite. One of Arley’s boarders, Morgan, admits to her that he and the dude work
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