Bannerman the Enforcer 8 by Kirk Hamilton

Author:Kirk Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: winchester rifle, colt 45, piccadilly publishing, tales of the old west, keith hetherington, kirk hamilton, cowboys and gunslingers, yancy bannerman
Publisher: Piccadilly Publishing

Six – The Scheme

Johnny Cato was almost certain there was someone following him. He had made a few stops along the trail to see if anyone else came along, and so far, no one had showed. But he had a hunch someone was back there and he had long ago learned never to disregard his hunches.

It was simple enough following Yancey and the girl, though they were so far ahead now that he couldn’t see them. That was fine with him; they were following a clearly defined trail and it was easy to see in the moonlight. Which meant that he, too, would be easy to see.

He turned his mount off the trail into some rocks that threw deep shadows across the land, with the moon still at its low angle. He decided he would wait there for an hour. It would be a mite chancy, but he felt sure he would be able to pick up Yancey’s trail again. He had seen the girl dancing in the cantina last night and hadn’t figured her for anything but what she appeared to be. It was a good cover for a contact, he reckoned, feeling comforted by the smooth metal of the Manstopper’s frame. He held the gun loosely in his lap as he sat the saddle.

He strained his ears, but could hear only normal night sounds and began to wonder if he had been wrong. But they had sent those two hombres after him last night to knife him. Probably they had been watching him all day and there would still be someone keeping tabs on him. He would bet on it.

There was. But they didn’t come along the trail as he was expecting. They came in over the rocks behind him. There were two of them and the only way he knew they were coming was because one man scraped his knife on a rock and struck sparks. Cato whirled, bringing up the gun but a hurtling body cannoned into him and carried him clear out of the saddle. The horse whinnied and shied and he rolled away from the panicky hoofs as they thudded down beside him. The knife blade sliced through his shirt. He felt pain sear across his ribs and knew he had been lucky; the point had merely laid open his flesh.

He drove an elbow backwards into the man he was wrestling with and the second man hurled himself forward, knife upraised. Cato brought up his legs but wasn’t fast enough and the man fell against him. The Manstopper was jammed between their bodies and he notched the hammer back, not knowing whether it was set for the ordinary cartridge or the shot barrel. He dropped the hammer as the man started to rise. There was a sound like muffled thunder and the gun jumped from Cato’s grip with the violent recoil as the shot barrel blasted the man back several feet, his left side torn to shreds by the charge of buckshot.

The other man was startled and paused with his knife blade touching Cato’s throat.

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