Mississippi Jack by Meyer Louis A

Author:Meyer, Louis A. [Meyer, Louis A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adventure, Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Historical, Humor
ISBN: 9780152060039
Amazon: 0152066322
Barnesnoble: 0152066322
Goodreads: 295652
Publisher: Graphia
Published: 2007-08-31T23:00:00+00:00

I can’t reach my pistols, I can’t…Oh, God, I’m gonna…

I hear two shots, one right after the other, and two blossoms of red appear on the mans chest. He drops the weapon and falls back, still as a stone.

I roll over to see Clementine standing over me, her two smoking pistols held out at shoulder level.

“Thank you, Sister,” I say, my voice quavering as I get to my knees and then shakily stand. “He’d have skewered me for sure.”

She nods, looking dumbly at the smoking pistols in her hands. I know how that feels, Clementine, when you kill someone, no matter how vile they might be, but we’ll deal with this later.

“Reload, Clementine. There might be more.” Given this simple task to do, she does it, and we continue on to the cave, with me being much more watchful this time. Stupid thing, you! Keep watch!

We gain the cave mouth and the Hawkes boys begin taking the plunder down to the boats. I go around to the side, where Lightfoot and Chee-a-quat and Katy are standing guard against a possible return of the thieves, and I call Katy to me. As she comes toward me, I notice Lightfoot watching her as she goes. Hmmm.

“Katy,” I say. “Stand guard on Matty and ‘Thaniel as they take the goods down. I was almost killed by one of the survivors of the bandits’ boat on my way up here. If not for Clementine, I’d be dead right now.”

“Um,” she says, nods, and lopes off after the boys.

Clementine and I go into the cave to find Higgins separating what we can use or sell from that for which we’d have no possible use.

“So, Mr. Higgins, just what do we have here?”

“Well, Miss, we have this,” he says, handing me a sort of flat wooden box. “A man attempted to escape with it, but he did not make it past your dragoons. Katy brought it down.”

I lift the lid. Inside is an assortment of watches, gold and silver coins, brass buttons, gold buttons, brooches, hairpins, necklaces, pearls… How sad, I think to myself when I pick up an exquisite cameo to examine. This was probably some poor girl’s most prized possession. It is all just so sad…the evil that exists in men, I cannot understand it.

“Good,” I say out loud, snapping the lid closed and handing it back to Higgins. “There will be a payday in Cairo when we get there, and I’m sure, since no one has gotten any pay yet, all will welcome that. What else did you find here?”

“Powder—whiskey, mostly. Several dozen chickens. Clothing we will be able to use or else sell. And one item in particular that might interest you, Miss,” says Higgins. “But first I must show you this.”

With that he strides over to the pallet that holds the sick boy. The boy’s eyes are still half shut and he is shivering. Higgins reaches down to lift the bottom edge of the blanket. Around the boy’s thin, grimy ankle

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