Robert J Randisi by Bounty on a Baron (v5)

Author:Bounty on a Baron (v5)
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: fiction
Publisher: a cognizant original v5 release october 4 2010
Published: 2010-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

As he drank some strong black coffee, Decker pondered on the significance of the attack. Someone from a logging camp had sent those two men after him, and the only logging camp he’d been anywhere near was the Boone camp.

Who was really in command there? he wondered. How much real authority did Dani Boone have? She had just taken over from her father. How much loyalty would she command from her men? And why, if she was so anxious for Decker to find her father’s killer, would she send two men to kill him.

No, it wasn’t Dani Boone.

The logic that eliminated Dani Boone, however, did not apply to the other person who was in authority: Big Jeff Reno. Decker had had no contact whatsoever with Reno during the short time he’d been in the camp, yet whenever the man looked at him, it had been with distinct displeasure.

Why? What could Reno have against him? Perhaps Reno recognized Decker. It wasn’t impossible that Decker had once brought in or killed a relative of his. Decker couldn’t count the times that someone’s brother or father or wife or even daughter had tried to kill him out of revenge.

Still, if he’d had some contact with a relative of Reno’s in the past, and if there had been any resemblance at all, surely he’d remember.

Was he leaving someone out? What about Frenchie? If he’d been so close to Dani’s father, wouldn’t he have some authority with the men? He could have given the order, but it had been Frenchie who’d brought Decker into camp in the first place.

Reno was Decker’s choice, but he decided not to go back to camp now and find out. He could do that later. It would be some time before Reno knew that his men had failed, and by that time it would be too late to send anyone else after him.

Decker fed some more mesquite into the fire, then lay back with his head on his pillow. He’d sleep lightly to night. He filed Jeff Reno away in the back of his mind as unfinished business.

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