Hard Twisted A Novel by C. Joseph Greaves

Author:C. Joseph Greaves
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2012-09-24T21:00:00+00:00

The rental when they found it was more shed than guesthouse, the floorplanks cupped and gapped and the open stud walls nested with skeins of feathery dust. The window glazing rattling in its sashes as the door swung closed behind them.

Lord knows, it isn’t much, the woman said, snatching at a strand of floating cobweb. We don’t rent it in the winter, of course. But there’s a flush toilet and a tub through here, and a closet.

There was a bedstead as well, bare springs under thin cotton ticking, plus a sink and a small eating table. The woman drew a line in the dust with her finger.

I wasn’t expecting to show it so soon. I’ll send one of the girls down to sweep it out this afternoon. She glanced at Lottie and smiled. And bring some clean linens, of course.

Palmer turned to the window, which looked onto the back lawn and the main house beyond.

The woman spoke to his back. Are you by any chance kin to Lawrence Palmer? He’s our county sheriff, you know.

Palmer turned. The woman was broad and potato-faced, with large hands and clear, unblinking eyes. Her age was sixty, or eighty. She wore a white cotton apron over her housedress, and her steel-gray hair was upswept and tightly bound.

Could be, ma’am. My granddaddy and my uncle, they was both Texas Rangers. He winked at Lottie. We Palmers got a long history with the law.

Why then, you’ll have to meet my Will. The woman beamed, turning toward the door. He was county sheriff as well.

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