Jim Saddler 4 by Gene Curry

Author:Gene Curry
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Piccadilly

Ten

I was trying to put the desk back together when Calvin showed up to do his sweeping and told me that Dorfman wasn’t going to die. It was early morning and still cool. Calvin whistled when he saw the damage and went to the stable to borrow some carpenter tools. When he came back, he said, “Mr. Bush didn’t want to loan them to me, but he did when I said you’d get mad.”

“Do what you can with it,” I said. I was back from breakfast and not in such a good mood.

Everything was getting too complicated for an old West Texas shit-kicker like me. Like it or not, I was becoming too much a part of this half-forgotten town. If I had taken one of the nine other ways to the border, it would all be happening without me. A hundred to one, I’d never heard about what happened to Callahan, or Kate, or Laurie, or any of the others. The two women had me going. I had to choose between them, and then I had to choose between the one I wanted and Callahan.

Not that I trusted either one of them. They were just using me, trying to, to get what they wanted. But that’s the way of women, yeah, and men, so I didn’t feel put out about it. Anyway, there’s no reason why you can’t like someone you don’t trust. Those old boys who wrote the Constitution had a good name for it—eternal vigilance. I would have to watch them so they wouldn’t try to do me dirt at the wrong time.

I had been thinking about Calvin, the only person in town, apart from the old restaurant keeper, who didn’t act edgy around me. I didn’t count Laurie. She was too busy thinking about herself. At least she wasn’t against me.

“You think Mr. Danziger has as much money as Bet-A-Million Gates?” Calvin asked, raising dust at the same time.

“Not even as much as Diamond Jim,” I said.

Calvin collected the dirt in a dustpan and dumped it into the stove. “That’s what I thought. Everybody else in this town thinks he’s God Almighty. Mr. Bush at the stable is talking about fixing up the place for when people start coming back to town. You think that’ll ever happen?”

“Not likely,” I said. “If it ever happens it won’t be because of anything Danziger does. He’s just leading them up the garden path.” I was still thinking about Kate. “How much do you know about what’s happening?”

“More than you think probably. Mr. Bush don’t talk about nothing else. It’s like the whole town is holding their breath waiting to see what happens with that girl. Flannery, Kate Flannery. What’s so important about her, is what I’d like to know?”

Calvin was still at the age when old Bet-A-Million Gates, with his millions made from barbwire, was more interesting than any woman, even one as great looking as Kate.

I had to make it sound reasonable to the boy. “She ran away from her husband because she hates him and doesn’t want to go back.

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