So she is pressed into the long-term care of both the patients because the doctor is overwhelmed with work, and no one else will care for a Bad Guy. Oh - she's now out of money and needs a job. The father is now dead - the spinster holds herself a leeetle above everyone else now, and the town respects her but doesn't exactly consider her friendly or approachable. Her mother, already dead at that point, was the one who drummed Puritanical ideals into her, and we learn that the real reason she was jilted was because the hero decided she was too much of a prude, and the father/invalid was the only excuse she could admit to herself. The heroine is an uptight spinster of 33 - her backstory is that she had a fiance at 20, but he jilted her, supposedly because she had to take care of her invalid father. The passenger is awake and aware the robber is unconscious. So now we have 2 men shot - the passenger in the big toe and the robber through the upper thigh. During trains being built across the nation - and the story is that there's a train robbery, and a passenger stops the robber by shooting him, and gets shot in the process. Hummingbird is a historical novel that takes place in Colorado, but I can't recall the year exactly - 1870s sometime. This review contains spoilers, as in the secret identity and the resolutions.
I had already read the 2nd story, Separate Beds.
It's also a full novel, not a short story.
This is the 3rd story in the 3-story book: Hummingbird.
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