Earl Lee 2 - PALE HORSE COMING by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub

Earl stood in the line and Section Boss rode up to him, his horse veering ever so close to make Earl draw back. But Earl knew the horseman wasn't going to come too close; he was scared of Earl.

Then Earl looked up.

"Section Boss, got to talk to you."

"Well, damn, boy, don't that beat it all."

"Please, Section Boss."

Section Boss backed up, steadied his horse, and climbed off.

Immediately a couple of other riders came up to cover him, their sticks and whips at the ready, their freshly greased Winchester .351s close by in their saddle scabbards.

Earl approached humbly.

"Speak, boy."

"Sir, I can't take it no more. When Moon gets back, he going to do sum ping awful to me, and it preys heavy on my mind. All these other men gonna laugh about it. Then he going kill me. I can't die in no prison for colored. Please, sir, you tell Guard Sergeant Bigboy I am a broken man at last."

"You see the error of your ways?"

"I do, boss. Surely I do. I will come clean, yes sir, and we can git this all straightened out. I can't take no more of this shit. I won't last another night."

"You punkin' out after all? And you'd be such a hero! You'd be such a tough boy!"

"Ain't no kind of tough, boss. Ain't no kind of hero. Ain't nothing but a man."

"You git back down in that hole!"

"Boss, I--"

"You git back down in that goddamn hole, boy, like I say, or I'll please myself to give you another thumping. I may tell Bigboy, I may not. I's looking forward to tonight. What I hear, Moon got some real plans for you. Moon gonna have fun tonight. Maybe we'll just let him and take you in tomorrow."

"Oh, boss, please don't do that."

"Git in that hole, boy, while I think this over."

Earl got back in the line, where his conversation with Section Boss had been noted.

"You finally goin' over to the man, buckra?"

"He done slept wif niggers enuff. Yes suh, the white boy goin' on back."

"Moon still gonna hunt his ass down and do it up fine. If I know Moon, that's what's goin' to happen right swell."

So Earl had another morning in the hole, and at 10:00, when Fish showed up, he worked Earl over plenty hard, as he did all the time, mainly along male rape lines and the power of Moon and his boys against the weakness of the lone white man. He worked him over so hard Earl wondered if it were a dream or not, the whole fantasy of escape. Maybe it was something his crazed brain had heated up for him as a way of retreating from the reality of the place.

But though Fish mocked him blasphemously, to the amusement of both his white and his black audience, as Earl reached for the cup, the old man grabbed his hand to check for the pin with a quick probe of his fingers, found it, and threw a wink at Earl. That gave Earl some sustenance.

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