Passion of Madeline by Robin Gideon

Author:Robin Gideon [Gideon, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2012-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

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Willy Boy Brown looked at what was left of his gang, then took a swallow of rye whiskey. The cheap liquor scorched a path down his throat, and he grimaced. Hours earlier, he had been the leader of a gang of eight men. He had enough men when the day started to terrorise a small town. Enough men to rob a good-sized bank and have plenty of backup. Enough men to cut a hundred head of cattle from a herd and ride off with them on an evening.

Now he had only two men under his command—and they were looking at him with suspicion in their eyes. Both had just lost brothers that they were forced to leave behind without so much as a burial.

“What you thinking, Willy Boy?” Paul Nickerson asked. “You coming up with a plan?”

“A plan to do what?” Willy Boy shot back sarcastically. This reversal of fortune had rattled his nerves. “To bring your brother back to life? No, I ain’t got a plan for that.”

Sam Taylor, the other remaining member of the gang, put a hand out towards Willy Boy, wanting the liquor bottle. “I think he’s talking about revenge. We left five good men back there to rot or become buzzard bait. Seems to me we aught not just let something like that go without seeing to it that we get some revenge.”

Since none of the dead were any kin to Willy Boy, revenge was a minor motivation for him. However, seeing that his leadership position could well be in jeopardy, Willy Boy was inclined to sail with the prevailing winds.

“I didn’t get a real good look, but it sure seemed to me that it was Hawk and Cole Darden who bushwhacked us,” Willy Boy said, his tone changing, becoming lower, deeper, more authoritative. “I gave a twenty dollar gold piece to get the information that Darden money was on that stagecoach. The only way they could have followed us is if someone told them what I had planned. That tells me the guy I bought the information from also sold me out to Cole Darden.”

Paul and Sam were nodded in agreement. Willy Boy liked the way they were looking at him now for leadership and direction.

“First thing we do, we make sure that bastard suffers for what he did to us. Your brothers would all be alive today if he hadn’t sold us out to Cole.” Willy Boy waited, looking at his men, wondering if one death would be enough to assuage their sense of duty and vengeance. After several seconds of silence, Willy Boy knew he had to add more names to the death list. “Then we’ll take our own sweet time getting revenge on none other than Cole Darden, and that half-breed heathen he keeps at his side, Hawk.” He laughed. “Either of you boys ever kill a millionaire before?”

Paul said, “Now you talkin’, Willy Boy.”

“But we’re gonna play it smart,” Willy Boy continued. “We ain’t riding up to Cole when he’s ready for us.

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