Bannerman the Enforcer 5 by Kirk Hamilton

Author:Kirk Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: keith hetherington, western fiction ebook, us frontier history, marshall grover, kirk hamilton, bannerman the enforcer western series, leonard mears, outlaws and lawmen in the old west
Publisher: Piccadilly Publishing

Chapter Six – Ride South

Cato stirred in his bunk as a hand roughly shook his shoulder. He was fully awake before he opened his eyes and sat up, making out he was having trouble coming round. It was a precaution he had followed many times and it had saved his life on a few occasions, his apparent sleepiness throwing the other man off-guard just long enough for Cato to get the advantage.

But this morning it was unnecessary. Waco Wyatt was the man who had awakened him and he stepped back from the bunk as Cato went through his art of coming out of it slowly; he figured it wouldn’t hurt to give the impression that he was a man who always came round slowly. He saw that Wyatt held something in his hand, half-hidden behind his back and as he stood up and pulled on his pants, Wyatt held out the Manstopper gun-rig. Cato glanced at him sharply then took the rig swiftly and buckled it around his waist. He checked the big gun and saw that it was empty. He looked quizzically at the gunfighter.

“Just playin’ it safe,” Wyatt told him. “Get on up to the house. Blayne wants you.”

Cato nodded and proceeded to load the chambers in the Manstopper. He thumbed in eight .45 caliber cartridges and then walked down the long aisle of the bunkhouse and out into the sunlight of the yard. Instead of heading for the house, he turned towards the stables and Wyatt ran to catch up with him.

“I said the house!”

“In a minute.”

“Now!”

Wyatt was in a menacing attitude, looking as if he was about to draw. Cato looked him over and his mouth moved slightly in a crooked smile.

“Not just yet, Wyatt,” he said quietly, and continued on to the stables. He went inside and to the stall where his horse was. Wyatt’s shadow was thrown down the aisle from the doorway and his hand was on his gun butt now. But Cato wasn’t running out. He went to his saddlebags and rummaged inside. He brought out three or four shot-shells and took out the Manstopper again. He broke open the gun and thumbed a shell into the massive chamber in the center of the cylinder and snapped the action closed. He holstered the gun and dropped the spare shells into his shirt pocket.

Then he walked out into the yard past Wyatt without even giving the man a glance. The gunfighter’s face tightened as he swung across the yard after Cato. He passed the smaller man and jumped up nimbly onto the porch and strode across and opened the door. He managed to time it exactly so that when he closed it, it slammed right in Cato’s face. The small man smiled faintly, shook his head slowly, and opened the door, going inside.

He found Blayne’s office crowded with gunmen that he had seen around the ranch during his stay here. No one greeted him and Blayne himself, seated at his desk, merely glanced up and nodded briefly.

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