Over Your Dead Body by Tony Masero

Author:Tony Masero
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: civil war, nebraska, westerns, western fiction, frontier action, piccadilly publishing, tony masero
Publisher: Piccadilly Publishing

When Jesse Lee had been sheriff, rooms had been set aside for him at the hotel and Lomas had taken them over to use as a temporary jailhouse for Cain Lemon. The disconsolate gunman was kept manacled to a brass bedstead in the room until Lomas could have him removed for trial.

Looking as spruce and neat as ever, he was coming down the stairs into the hotel lobby when Belle and Kirby came in.

‘How you fellows feeling?’ he greeted them.

‘We’re here to get a room and spend some time cleaning up,’ said Kirby.

‘Okay, how about you and me meeting up for breakfast when you’re done? There’s a diner down the street.’

Kirby understood the underlying message and nodded acceptance. It was plain to him that Lomas needed to talk in private. ‘Alright,’ he said. ‘I’m going out to get Belle some duds anyway. I’ll see you in a spell.’

They booked rooms from the desk clerk and Kirby saw Belle up to her room. ‘I’ll need a list,’ he said as he held the door for her.

‘You’re not too good on ladies sizes then?’ she half smiled.

Kirby shook his head, ‘I guess not.’

‘Okay, go wash at the nightstand there and I’ll write out what I want whilst you do it. There’s going to be things here you don’t need to see, so just give it to the lady in the shop and have it brought over for me.’

He pulled off his shirt as she sat at a small writing desk and took a sheet of hotel paper to make her list, as she did so she glanced across at him. He stood with his back to her pouring water from a jug and she noted the exit wound of the bullet hole she had seen earlier. There were other scars there too, lash or knife wounds crisscrossing his back.

‘You look like you’ve been through the wars, Kirby,’ she observed as she scribbled with the pen.

‘Uhuh,’ he said over his shoulder. ‘Goes with the territory.’

‘So how did you get to be a Pinkerton agent?’

‘I met Mister Pinkerton up in Chicago; he was starting up his detective agency then. I saw an advertisement and thought I liked the sound of it. Mostly we was involved in helping slaves escape at that time and I got to know the man right well.’

‘What kind of fellow is he?’

‘Smart. He’s seen and done a lot. His daddy was a policeman back in their hometown in Scotland so I guess it’s in his blood. He’s not a fellow to mess around, he gets right down to it and I liked that.’

‘Now I understand why you came and went so often. I always thought you were some kind of drifter.’

Kirby was rubbing himself dry with a towel, ‘Well this business takes me all over the country and right now it’s getting kind of hectic, what with a new President coming in and all the rumblings of war.’

‘You’ll be leaving again soon then?’ she asked, blowing to dry the wet ink.

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