Blood Feather by Don Bendell

Author:Don Bendell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group, USA
Published: 2013-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

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Missy was so scared and tired, and now she was frightened more than before. Even she could see the blizzard sweeping across the valley floor toward them. We Wiyake spotted a ranch ahead of them and rode up to the barn. He dismounted and set Missy down, pulling his Henry repeater out of his blanket roll, something he rarely did. They walked toward the ranch house front door.

Ed and Myrtle Hazleton were from Manchester, England, and had come to America with one express purpose. They wanted to see and help conquer the American frontier, the Wild West. They spent one year in Denver City, but it was way too urban for their tastes, so they came to the Wet Mountain Valley in a Conestoga wagon and purchased the ranch from another couple. They saw the giant killer Indian and little girl coming across their yard. Ed stepped out the front door; he was used to friendly Utes stopping by from time to time. A smile spread across his face as he looked at Missy, but then Blood Feather lifted the Henry and fired, then levered and fired two more rounds into the man’s chest. A curious Myrtle was looking out the window and started screaming from inside. We Wiyake ignored the screams as he stopped, pulled out his knife, and cut the man’s left little finger off for his necklace. Tucking it in his waistband, he went inside and saw the woman in the corner holding a rolling pin up, tears streaming down her cheeks. He walked across the room, set the rifle across the table, and strode over to her while she kept screaming. His hand came up with the knife, and he grabbed her right wrist as she swung the rolling pin at him. He then plunged the knife deep into her abdomen and, one-handed, lifted her up, still impaled, off the floor as she screamed in pain and terror. He just stared into her eyes up close until they became lifeless and her body went limp.

He dropped her and then picked her body up, carried it outside, and dumped it across her husband’s. Missy just watched all this in shock. We Wiyake started carrying in many pieces of firewood and added some to the fire already going in the fireplace. A large pot had stew in it cooking.

Next, he quickly explored the property and found a stone-walled underground fruit cellar with many canned goods there in Mason jars sealed with paraffin. Blood Feather could tell by looking what they were, and he quickly figured out how they probably would open. These were actually screw-top Mason jars, which had existed for almost twenty years at that time.

Strongheart kept in the same direction of travel, but a little to the north he spotted a large dense outcropping of rocks rising up around five hundred feet. He cantered to it and galloped around the circumference. Near the base was a large grove of trees, mainly pines and cedars. He found a spot where there was a jumble of boulders on the lee side of the outcropping.

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