Rio Matanza (Bodie Kendrick - Bounty Hunter Book 2) by Dundee Wayne D

Author:Dundee, Wayne D [Dundee, Wayne D]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Bil-Em-Ri Media
Published: 2012-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

"What an extraordinary turn of events," marveled Hunt Bradley. "But then, from the things I've been hearing about you, Mr. Kendrick, extraordinary events seem not uncommon where you're concerned."

"Don't know about all that," Kendrick replied, shrugging dismissively. "But havin' those Yaquis show up the way they did this morning, that was damn sure a lucky turn of events. Lucky for me, no denyin'."

"They must have been drawn by the gunfire when you were shooting it out with the Rurales down in the gulch," Doc Turpin said. "Then, when it came down to just you and those last few soldiers up on the higher ground, they decided to get involved. Nobody hates the Rurales more fiercely than the Yaquis, and Yaquis are at their best on high ground and in mountainous terrain. They didn't earn the name el tigre de rocas—the tigers of the rocks—for nothing."

"I suppose," Kendrick said grimly, "I'm better off not askin' what they did with the bodies they drug off."

Bradley shrugged indifferently. "Let's just leave it at saying the heads of those soldiers are right about now on prominent display in some Yaqui camp."

"Just remember," Estraleta pointed out, "that with or without the Yaquis, Kendrick was far from defeated. On his own, he still would have carried the day against what was left of those Rurale pigs!"

They were seated on rough-hewn wooden stools in the shade of a large canvas tarp that had been stretched between the points of four upright poles, expressly erected for the purpose of providing relief from the brutal mid-day sun. Their stools and two or three other unoccupied ones were arranged around an equally rough-hewn table strewn with weighted-down maps and other papers.

On this occasion, four gourd cups and a straw-wrapped bottle of mescal were also present on the table. The canopied area was where "Colonel" Huntsford Bradley typically held meetings to plan strategies and review recent developments pertaining to the Bordados uprising. When necessary, guards were posted to keep un-welcome ears from eavesdropping on critical details. Today there were no guards and, in the rugged clearing surrounding them, various activities were taking place throughout the rebel camp with little or no attention paid to the current discussion being held.

Back in the foothills, once the Yaquis had left, Kendrick had climbed down again to the gully floor and proceeded to walk in the direction Estraleta had ridden, hoping to eventually come across Blockhead. Before that could happen, however, he heard riders approaching from somewhere ahead of him. He hastily concealed himself in some rocks only to recognize, once the riders came into view, that it was a force of heavily armed rebels with Estraleta and Doc mounted at the lead.

Kendrick stepped out and halted them with a sharp whistle. After a quick round of reunions—with Doc, Estraleta, and also Blockhead, who was being led by one of the nameless rebels—they'd gotten out of there and headed back to the rebel camp, where Hunt Bradley awaited.

"Well, one thing is for certain," Bradley was saying now.

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