Mad Boy by Nick Arvin

Author:Nick Arvin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc.
Published: 2018-05-09T04:00:00+00:00

The East Branch chuckles as they pass over the bridge.

Suthers stops at the tavern in Bladensburg, dismounts, pulls Henry off, ties the horse, says, “Watch the horse.”

The instant Suthers passes through the doorway, Henry starts on the sacks. He doesn’t have a great deal of experience with horses, and he doesn’t trust this one. He wants to leave the horse. But the sacks are tied to a loop on the saddle with an unusually complicated waterman’s knot, and it takes him a moment to unravel it. Then he heaves the sacks to his shoulder, starts running up the street.

He’s not crossed thirty feet before Suthers steps from behind the corner of the tavern. In his hand is a rake, which he swings into Henry’s shin, sending him facedown into the mud. Suthers sets a knee in Henry’s back, produces a length of rope, and there in the street binds Henry’s hands behind his back. “You ought to give matters a little more forethought,” he says to Henry, cheerily. “Restrain your impulses a moment.” Suthers pushes his face into the mud, and then it’s all Henry can do to tongue the muck off his teeth and breathe.

“Believe me,” Suthers adds, yanking Henry to his feet, “I am in fact working to advance your interests.”

He produces an sack of linsey-woolsey and pulls it over Henry’s head.

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