High Country Rescue by Michael Skinner

Author:Michael Skinner [Skinner, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-29T04:00:00+00:00

They headed west out of town and fell into a steady gait.

Jack said, “I don’t care where we are going, but I would like to know.”

Mark said, “I will explain it to you when we stop. Right now, we are on the road to Montrose.”

The two, continued west all afternoon until almost dark.

Mark stopped before they crossed a small stream and said, “We’ll stop here to rest and eat.”

He turned north off the road and toward the stream and Jack followed.

He said, “Drop the saddles and hobble the horses and I will get a fire started.”

Jack took Mark’s horse and began to strip the horses of their saddles, blankets, and reins. As he finished each horse, he hobbled their front legs with a loose rope hobble, which would allow them to walk around to feed and water but not let them run. He had to unload the pack horse before he could remove the pack saddle. Now he went to the gear and got the food and pans for dinner. Mark had gathered the firewood and cleared a spot for the fire and was just lighting it when he returned.

Jack said, “Do you want me to get the bedrolls ready?”

“No, we are just going to wait here until the moon comes up then we will be on the road again.

“Can you tell me what this is about and where we are going?”

“My brother is in the middle of a complicated land deal, and he is concerned that a rancher south of Montrose named Will Johnson may have found out about it, and if he has, he may try to block it or take it away from my brother. We are trying to get to his ranch as fast as we can and see if he is still there.”

“What is the tent and camping gear all about?”

“If he is still at the ranch, then we stay there and watch him.”

“It must be a big deal for all this effort.”

“It is. Break out the coffee, beans, and bacon and let’s get some food started.”

Jack went down to the stream filled the coffee pot half full and set it on the fire to get hot. Then he got his and Mark’s canteen and filled them with clean water from the stream. He sliced some bacon off the slab and put it in the skillet to cook and opened the beans and poured them into the small pan to heat. He had been around Mark long enough to know that he should do most of the work. Anything that Mark didn’t offer to do was his to do. He wrapped the slab of bacon back up and returned it to the canvas bag that he had gotten it out of earlier. Then he returned to tend the food cooking on the fire. He added coffee to the pot, got the plates, cups, and forks ready. Once he had taken up the food and poured the coffee, he called Mark who was standing over by the road finishing his smoke.

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