Last Chance Saloon by Cole Shelton

Author:Cole Shelton [Shelton, Cole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The preacher’s wife returned to the parlour and drew in her breath sharply as she saw Jason holding the carbine he’d just taken down from its wall hooks.

‘Don’t even think about it!’ she warned.

O’Toole muttered, ‘Who said I was thinking about anything?’

Tabitha blazed, ‘I’ve been your good, faithful wife for almost fifteen years, Jason Micah O’Toole, and I know you through and through. You can’t hide anything from me.’ She spoke more softly now, ‘Not even your drinking.’

‘Fact is, I was just remembering,’ the preacher said, still nursing the lethal gun.

‘You need to forget those misspent years with John Brown,’ she admonished him. ‘He might have led an anti-slavery crusade, with the best of intentions but many men died in that battle of Harper’s Ferry.’

‘And this gun killed some of them.’

‘Some say the battle of Harper’s Ferry led to the Civil War,’ Tabitha reminded her husband. She added earnestly, ‘But, Jason, the past is the past. You’re a man of God now, a preacher of peace.’

‘Not easy to preach peace when the likes of Delaney, Jorgenson and Malloy are raising hell in your town,’ Jason O’Toole mused.

‘We have to leave it to the Lord,’ Tabitha insisted. Inexplicably, impulsively, she thought again about that tall stranger, Brett Cassidy, and how he’d just ridden into their town. There was something about him that moved her to say, very quietly now, ‘I’m sure the Good Lord has it all in hand.’

‘Yes, my dear, you’re probably right,’ her husband agreed.

The Reverend Jason O’Toole lifted his old carbine back on to its wall hooks.

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