Benedict and Brazos 21 by E. Jefferson Clay

Author:E. Jefferson Clay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: colt 45, western ebooks, piccadilly publishing, western action adventure, gunfighters and outlaws, wild west 1880s, best western series
Publisher: Piccadilly

Chapter Seven – The Trespassers

IT SEEMED TO Hank Brazos that Christie Musketoon was leading him directly into a solid cliff face. But Christie kept on riding towards a section of the cliff where a heavy clump of blue saltbush clung to the rock, then Brazos noticed Bullpup sniffing at the ground before scouting suspiciously ahead towards the saltbush.

“Clever dog, amigo,” Christie grinned, and suddenly the Texan could see that the cliff face was not solid at all at the base, but comprised a lofty chip of stone some fifty feet high by eighty feet long that was split off from the cliff face as if by a giant knife. Between shelf and cliff was a passage some ten feet wide. Now the smell of cattle was strong in the air. The stony ground was thick with cattle droppings, and squarely behind the brush-grown rock slab and totally concealed by it, was a deep cleft in the wall of the cliff.

A gloomy corridor wound deep into the cliff until it was lost in darkness.

Brazos whistled between his teeth as he turned to the grinning Musketoon. “So that’s how they do it. But how come them ranchers never found out about this here pass, Christie?”

His companion shrugged. “The secrets of the trade, companero. When I rustle, just Christie and maybe one or two others know of the pass. Nobody tell. Why tell?” Then he gestured downward. “But somebody else know it, Hank ... now.”

“Looks like it,” Brazos agreed. “And this leads up to Outlaw Trail, pard?”

“Si. You wish to follow? Of course, we could first ride into Archangel and perhaps have little drink and maybe big fight first?”

“We follow this pass now, mister. I ain’t leavin’ these mountains until I find out who’s been makin’ use of ’em.”

Christie Musketoon sighed, shrugged again, then reluctantly kneed his horse forward. Right about now, Luz would be retiring to their huge bed in Jackson’s Canyon. But for friendship, he would be there with his chiquita on one side and a fresh jug on the other. It was not an easy thing, this being a friend ...

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