Iron Eyes 11 by Rory Black

Author:Rory Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: action hero, bounty hunters, william w johnstone, the wild west, spaghetti westerns, wild west fiction, piccadilly publishing westerns, best western books, navy colts
Publisher: Piccadilly

Chapter Ten

THERE WAS A mixed reaction between the two dirt farmers who stared in disbelief at the sight of the tall thin bounty hunter who leaned against the crude doorframe and sucked on the black weed between his gritted teeth. They both had heard tales of the infamous man who stood before them. Tales so tall they could have towered over the mightiest tree within the unnamed valley. Yet the more they stared at the fearsome man, the more they began to realize that all of those stories might actually be true. Dan Landon’s neighbors were torn by the revelation that one of the deadliest gunmen in the entire West was within feet of them. One reason for their confusion was that Iron Eyes might just be their savior, as Landon had whispered. For Iron Eyes had weaponry and knew how to use it to devastating effect.

The second cause for alarm was that this lethal man could also bring about their downfall in one blazing onslaught by the ruthless vaqueros. For both James and Garcia knew that Sanchez could never allow outsiders who entered his own private kingdom to get away with murder. He would be hellbent on vengeance once he discovered that the bounty hunter had already dispatched one of his vaqueros into the bowels of Hell. None of them would be safe again.

They would all be guilty in the eyes of Sanchez.

Each and every one of the settlers would be punished.

Neither James nor Garcia could actually believe their eyes as they looked at the sight before them. With no shirt to conceal his strapped waist or the battleground of old scars which covered his pitifully lean frame, Iron Eyes barely resembled a human being at all.

This man seemed to have more physical and facial scars than anyone else they had ever encountered. Some of the skin on the bruised and battered frame looked as though it had been melted by fire. They were not to know that that was exactly what Iron Eyes had endured many years earlier.

Above all other things the bounty hunter had proved himself to be a survivor. But even his luck had to run out one day, they quietly assumed.

Iron Eyes inhaled and then stepped out into the morning light. Both James’s and Garcia’s wives gave a gasp of shocked horror when they saw him.

Yet the children seemed to accept what they saw.

Somehow their young minds had yet to discover the prejudices that most adults grew into. For they did not fear this wounded man and therefore did not brand him as the rest of the country had done. It mattered little to them what color a person was or how thin or fat some might be. They still had a purity and innocence which did not notice such things.

Yet their mothers rounded them up as mothers do and vainly tried to shield their offspring’s eyes from seeing the very thing their own eyes were unable to stop looking at. Without even knowing it, they were fueling their children’s souls with the seeds of their own fear.

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