It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own (Code of the West) by Bly Stephen

Author:Bly, Stephen [Bly, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

When he awoke, a predawn glow was beginning to lighten the eastern sky. The gray and white cat slept at his feet in the hay.

He toted his dried-out saddle blanket back from the house and got Brownie ready to ride.

“Cat, me and Brownie’s got work to do. We’re going to get Onespot back. And we’re going to settle this someplace besides my own ranch. You take care of things, ya hear?”

Tap rode south to the mouth of the canyon and then slanted southwest to pick up the main trail north from McCurley’s hotel. The sky was a deep September blue, but the air felt cold. He wore his coat buttoned tight and his bandanna wrapped around his neck all day.

Since he had no food with him, there was no reason to stop for dinner. But he did rest the horse from time to time, loosening the cinch and walking the animal.

His thoughts bounced between rage and resignation all day long.

It’s always been this way. It doesn’t matter if I’m Tap Andrews, or Zachariah Hatcher, or Joe Jones. If there’s a scrap within five hundred miles, I get sucked into the center of it.

I have no idea what Hatcher would have done in such straits. But I do know what I need to do. No one ever steals a horse from Tap Andrews. Even if I succeed, I may have to move on up the road. Somebody will twist it around, and I’ll get the blame.

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