Rocky Mountain Retribution (The Ames Archives Book 2) by Peter Grant

Author:Peter Grant [Grant, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-27T06:00:00+00:00

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Dunnett arrived early on the following Wednesday morning. He wore nondescript trail clothing, very different from the city suit Walt had seen him wear in Denver.

“You look like you’ve come upon hard times,” Walt observed jokingly as they sat in his office, drinking coffee.

“I told the boss I was goin’ to help another Ranger chase a bunch o’ cattle rustlers,” Dunnett replied. His face twisted sourly. “I had to get out o’ the office, or punch him in the snoot. This was the easiest way.”

“What do you mean?”

“I got pulled off investigatin’ those papers you gave me.”

Walt stared. “But you said they were valuable clues!”

“They were, but I reckon they’ve been burned by now. Someone high up got to my boss. He took ’em all, an’ told me to forget I’d ever seen ’em.”

Walt sat in grim silence for a moment, fighting down the fury welling up inside him; then he said simply, “Parsons.”

“I reckon so. I figure he’s got hooks into some of our politicians in Denver. If he greased the right palms…”

“Yeah. I get it.”

“That don’t mean I won’t help you, though,” Dunnett assured him. “I just can’t do it officially. I want these bastards as badly as you do, partly ’cause o’ them interferin’ in my work like that, but ’specially ’cause o’ what they did to you a few weeks back. I was real sorry to hear about your wife. I never met her, but I heard from folks who had, back in Denver. They said she was somethin’ special.”

“She sure was,” Walt said quietly. “They’re going to pay for that, the hard way.”

“Good. I reckon Parsons might even have enough pull, or be able to pay enough in bribes, to get off a charge of murder; so, I ain’t got no problem at all if you make him pay some other way. My boss may have pulled me off the case, but I still got a network of informers. I also got a few other Rangers who’ll tell me things, or do me favors, and ask no questions. I reckon, if you an’ I can figure out what to ask, an’ who an’ where to ask it, we might be able to find out what we need to know. I already got something for you in that line.”

Walt sat up with a jerk, then winced as a stab of pain went through his still-recovering head. “Ow! What did you find out?”

“I saw that a lot o’ those telegraph messages about corn or hay came out o’ Denver. I figured Parsons might have had more than one gang workin’ like that, so I went to the telegraph company, an’ asked to see their register of messages for the past five years. I got a few people to help me sift through them. Guess what? Four people got a lot o’ messages like that. One was Furlong, but we don’t need to worry about him no more. Another was a guy named Muldoon in Fort Collins.

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