Colorado Bride by Greenwood Leigh

Author:Greenwood, Leigh [Greenwood, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Ten Talents Press
Published: 2011-12-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

A sixth sense warned Lucas of danger and he woke with a start. Without a moment’s hesitation he drew on his pants and reached for his rifle.

“Where are you going?” Carrie asked drowsily, the mists of sleep still clogging her brain.

“There’s somebody outside,” he whispered. “Stay here while I have a look.” Carrie sat up, clutching the bedclothes to her bosom. Was it Baca Riggins? Had he come back as he’d said?

Lucas tiptoed to the front window and looked out, being careful not to offer himself as a possible target. He saw nothing at first. The yard was empty and he heard no sound of anyone moving around the cabin. Then one of the horses whinnied and he looked toward the corral. The mustangs were moving about restlessly, but it was several moments more before Lucas saw the young Indian creeping along the edge of the corral toward the gate; he was going to open it and stampede the horses.

“It’s those fool Indian boys,” he called to Carrie in a loud whisper. “They’re after the horses again, and they may have brought their friends along this time.”

“What are you going to do?”

“Stop them, of course.”

“But they’re boys. You can’t kill them.”

“I won’t hurt them if I can help it, but if I let them take our horses, nothing will be safe, I’ve got to stop them.” As he slipped noiselessly out the cabin door, Carrie jumped out of bed and began to dress. She had no intention of lying quietly in bed while Lucas battled Indians, boys or not.

But before Lucas had gone more than fifteen steps, the morning stillness was rent by an Indian war cry, and the boy stood up from his crouching position and reached for the corral gate. Taking quick aim, Lucas squeezed off a shot, and the corral post beneath the Indian’s outstretched hand dissolved into a shower of splinters that pierced his skin like a barrage of sharp needles. The boy let out a startled yell and leaped for the cover of a nearby tree. But the gate was unlatched, and a second Indian boy inside the corral began herding the horses toward the gate. Lucas put two shots into the ground in front of the herd; the shower of dust and stones caused the lead horse to rear and those behind him to run up on one another’s heels. Catching sight of Lucas where he knelt in the open, the Indian boy drew a bow, but before he was able to loose the arrow, a bullet from Lucas’s rifle shattered the bow in his hands.

With two Indians down and busily occupied pulling the painful slivers of wood from their flesh, Lucas darted for the open gate. If the horses got out, they wouldn’t stop until they were back in their familiar grazing ground, and that was a hard three-day-ride away. He reached the gate and was in the act of sliding the bar back into place when a whisper of clothes against

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