Death in High Places (A Renegade Western Book 7) by Lou Cameron

Author:Lou Cameron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: western erotica, western action adventure romance, lou cameron, captain gringo, ramsay thorne, western fantasy adventure, western adult romance, western ebook action and advenutre
Publisher: Piccadilly Publishing

Chapter Twelve

The first rail line ended against a steep escarpment. They arrived just at sundown and of course nobody in his or her right mind would attempt going on by mule or shank’s mare in the dark, bandits along the steep mountain trail or not. But as Sergeant Vallejo had said, they found a walled inn waiting for them when they disembarked from the train. There was a telegraph station, too. So as Gaston arranged quarters and saddle mules for the next leg of their journey at dawn, Captain Gringo filed a report for the Ottawa Observer, detailing the attack on the train, but putting it down as an attempted robbery and crediting the soldiers with a magnificent display of courage.

He had no idea whether anyone in Canada would ever read the foolish tale, but he knew people who were worried about them would intercept it and know they’d made it thus far. Anyone suspicious of strangers would hopefully think, if they intercepted his message, that he was indeed a harmless reporter, friendly to the Colombian Armed Forces.

When he returned to the courtyard of the posada he found Gaston had engaged rooms for them on the top floor: one for Gaston and a corner honeymoon-suite for the English girl and himself. It was a good thing they’d gotten sexually acquainted on the steamer. There was only one four-poster bed, and the mattress sagged alarmingly.

Liza was waiting for him in their room, wearing all her clothes and a wary expression. She said, “Dick, I just checked the lock on that door.”

He closed it experimentally and twisted the big Spanish key in the massive lock. He said, “Looks pretty stout to me, doll.”

“Look at the key, damn it!”

He took the key out and held it up to the light. He nodded and said, “Yeah, it’s pretty primitive. Looks like those Crusader keys on the Pope’s coat of arms.”

“Pooh, it’s even simpler. I’ll bet anyone could open that lock with a pen knife or a hair pin. What are we going to do?”

He shrugged. “Well, when in Rome. I’ll hang my gun belt on the headboard and we’ll pile some furniture against it. Who were you expecting?”

“God only knows! Anybody could burst in on us and rob or kill us in our sleep!”

“Not without making a lot of noise, doll. I think you’re getting worked up over nothing. We haven’t got all that much to steal and if anybody wants to kill us, they’d do better by waiting until we were out in the open. Gaston’s next door, and those actors and some other first-class passengers are all around the balcony.”

“How do you know we can trust them? We only know the Divine Rowena and her troupe. The other side could have plants among the Hispanic passengers. Those actors might not really be actors. What if they’re secret agents, too?”

“Jesus, who’d hire such lousy spies? They have to be real actors. Any up-to-date intelligence outfit would have gotten somebody that looks more like my idea of a Shakespearean.

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