Moment of Vengeance and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard

Author:Elmore Leonard
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins

HE GLANCED TOWARD the house and saw them coming out now.

“What about the government man, Bonito? He tells me you are a woman—a filthy pig of a woman with the diseases of animals. Unfit to live. And he has much authority. Perhaps he is the true chief here?”

Bonito’s eyes had gone to Sellers as he appeared in the doorway. The eyes held on the man, narrowing, and then Bonito was over the wall.

“How would you have it, Cor-sen?”

“Whatever is customary.”

“With the knife, then.”

“I’ll tell him.” Corsen turned to the men in front of the station house. “Sellers, Bonito says you’re afraid to fight him alone.”

Sellers was startled. “You’re crazy!”

“Ask him.”

“Fight him with what?”

“Knives.”

“Now I know you’re crazy.”

“You want to convince him you’re boss, don’t you? Beat him in a fair fight, the way they have to pick their chiefs sometimes.”

Fisher moved a step toward Sellers and, as he did so, brought the Winchester up and down in a short motion and Sellers’s pistol was out of his hand. He looked at Fisher with complete surprise, watching the outlaw pick up the pistol.

“I’ll hold it for you while you’re teaching that red son a lesson.”

“Corsen! Tell him I won’t fight him, that we don’t do this in our government.”

“Bonito,” Corsen translated, “he says he does not have a knife.”

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