Fallon (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures) by Louis L'Amour

Author:Louis L'Amour
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2019-05-27T16:00:00+00:00

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GINIA BLANE WAS sewing, but she was also listening. The story of the events at the Yankee Saloon had swept the town, and her father could not believe it. Neither could Damon, and they had been talking it over since breakfast.

Her father had been one of the leaders in the move to oust Fallon from control of the town, and Damon had been with him all the way. For the first time since she could remember, Al and his father had agreed about something. There had been others, of course. That her father had expected to be chosen as Mayor she knew, and she also knew what a shock it had been when the newcomers had deliberately shunted him aside.

Ginia Blane knew nothing of politics, but she had sense enough to recognize organization; and when Buell had been nominated the seconding of the motion had come too quickly—obviously the motion and its seconding had been agreed upon beforehand.

Budge had then been nominated, a man with no chance for election, and then a motion had come to move the nominations be closed and that was promptly seconded. Buell’s election had been a foregone conclusion.

Her father still did not know what had happened to him, but he had been rudely shocked by the manner in which he had been shunted aside, and he could not believe they had failed, even then, to cope with Fallon.

Her father could not face Fallon, and she did not blame him for that.

Al Damon was there also, and he moved his leg, now easing the position of the gun he wore. Al, Ginia decided, was afraid somebody would not realize that he was wearing a gun. Al was puzzled.

“But what did he do?” he demanded. “You say he just sat there. He must have done something.”

Needham was telling about it, and he was enjoying it. “I tell you he didn’t do anything!” He chuckled. “Why, you’d of thought he was the schoolmaster and that there Buell a young boy brought up for discipline. He made Buell look like a fool; and then of course, he told him about the water.”

“The water?”

“That he owned it. That he would shut off anybody who didn’t want to pay up. He did say he’d give traveling water to anybody who wanted to leave.”

Ginia thought…of course, of course, why didn’t I realize that? Without water, nobody can live, and the water is his.

“A man could slip down at night and get water from back of the dam,” Damon suggested. “He couldn’t watch all of that.”

“That water?” Mrs. Damon sniffed. “I wouldn’t drink it…or wash with it, if there was anything else. Cattle walk in it, drink from it—everything.”

“I don’t know why everybody is so anxious to be rid of him,” Ginia interrupted. “What has he done? He’s worked harder and done more than anybody else in town.”

“I’ve worked as hard as anybody!” Blane protested.

“You worked very hard,” Ginia agreed, “in your own shop and for your own profit. Fallon built the dam.

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