Deadfall by Stephen Lodge

Author:Stephen Lodge [Lodge, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

Later on in the evening, they all sat around the dwindling campfire and discussed the many ways they might use to get the captives out of the hacienda.

No decision had been reached by the time the boy decided to throw in his own two cents’ worth.

“Why don’t we break Kelly and Rod out of Armendariz’s jail first . . . before we try to find my mother and father. Both Kelly and Rod are good with guns, and we just might need them if you’re planning on breaking into that hacienda, Grampa,” said Henry Ellis. “You said the outer walls themselves were over twelve feet high.”

Charley nodded. Then he addressed the entire outfit.

“All right,” he said. “My grandson’s come up with a pretty good idea. We’ll go ahead and break Rod and Kelly out of Armendariz’s camp before daybreak. Then we’ll hit the hacienda at full strength.”

“May I interrupt, Señor Charley?” said Fuerte. “Not even counting the number of sentries guarding the main house, there are at least a hundred and fifty more militiamen who he must keep in those barracks we saw behind the hacienda. Plus there are those who work in the fields for the owner. That doesn’t include the vaqueros who watch over the cattle. As it is now, we are very undermanned. If you plan to attack them head-on—”

“Henry Ellis is right,” said Charley, interrupting his friend Fuerte. “Our first objective will be to get Rod and Kelly out of Armendariz’s camp. And we must use stealth,” he added. “We must send someone into that camp who can find Rod and Kelly. Untie them and lead them back here. Someone who looks so insignificant, no one in that camp would ever suspect he is one of us.”

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