One More Sunrise by Al Lacy

Author:Al Lacy [Lacy, Al]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-56413-9
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2013-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

On Monday, October 4, at the hideout in the mountains, Tag Moran and his gang were eating breakfast with Lucinda and Kathryn. The horses had already been watered, fed, bridled, and saddled, and were tied at the hitching posts by the front porch of the old cabin.

Tag swallowed a mouthful of scrambled eggs and smacked his lips. “Well, gals, I’m gonna miss your cooking as usual while we’re gone.”

“Me too,” piped up Jason Moran, “but it’ll be worth it when we come back with lots of money bags chock-full of the green stuff!”

“Sure will!” agreed Tony Chacone.

Lucinda took a sip of hot coffee, set her cup down, and looked at Tag. “So you’re going to hit the bank in Vernal, Utah, first, right?”

Tag nodded. “Yep. Then as usual, we’ll have to hide from the law for a few days. After that, we’ll head into Wyoming. As you gals know, after each bank robbery, we have to hide out a while to let things cool down. Whenever we hit a bank, word spreads fast to lawmen in nearby towns that we’re in the area. They also alert the banks in their towns.”

Lucinda nodded. “But when things cool down after the Vernal holdup, you’ll hit the bank in Evanston first.”

“Right. Then after another cooling-down time, we’ll hit the bank in Green River. The bank in Rock Springs will be next, then we’ll head for home. We should be back here in about three weeks with lots of money.”

Kathryn had barely touched her breakfast. She seemed drained of her strength, and her stomach felt nauseous. She knew when she watched Gib ride away she may never see him again.

Sitting beside her at the table, Gib saw the look of dread in her eyes. He patted her arm. “Honey, don’t get upset now.”

This drew everyone else’s attention to Kathryn.

She swallowed heavily, blinking back hot tears that sprang to her eyes and burned like the bile that was pushing into her throat. She grabbed Gib’s hand. “Darling, I—I’m afraid you’re going to get killed like Darryl did.”

Gib sighed and laid his palm on her cheek. “Kathryn, you’re borrowing trouble needlessly. Don’t be afraid. I’ll be fine.”

The others saw Kathryn’s eyes roam his features as though committing them to memory. “But you don’t know that, Gib. We all thought Darryl would come home from that stagecoach robbery—but now he lies in a cold grave at Cheyenne.”

Gib lifted the hand that she held, and with both hands, cupped her face tenderly. “Honey, you have to keep your mind on the fortune we’re building toward our retirement in sunny California in just a few years.”

She closed her eyes and the tears spilled freely onto his hands. He kept them there and dropped his head, biting his lips.

The others could see that Kathryn’s attitude was weighing on Gib.

He wiped away tears from both her cheeks and kissed her lips. “Honey, all of us will be back in three weeks, richer than ever.”

Kathryn struggled to keep her composure while the men were filing out the door to mount up and ride away.

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