Six Guns at Solace by John Davage

Author:John Davage [Davage, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Meg was sitting in her room at the back of the mercantile where her aunt had left her to change her torn clothes. She wasn’t at all sure her aunt had been convinced by her story of a hitching post and a nail, judging by the way Carrie Green had eyed the rents in both Meg’s dress and chemise, a quizzical expression on her face. But when Meg had offered no further explanation, she had been forced to accept the story. At least for now.

Meg’s greater worry was the discovery of her brother’s association with a gang of bandits. The name ‘Silas’ that she’d heard Clay call the other man in the bank, which she had immediately linked to the name ‘Pike’, were names she had heard Tom mention in relation to his work as a deputy. The Pike gang were notorious, suspected of some of the vilest crimes in the territory. But according to Tom, because of no hard proof, due mostly to dead or intimidated witnesses and a compliant sheriff in Weslake, the town where the Pike gang hung out, their criminal acts had always gone unpunished.

But now she was a witness, one who could testify that the Pike gang had in fact been the bank raiders. Except that, by doing so, she would implicate her own brother in the killings that had taken place. Indeed, had carried out two of them.

No, she would have to stick to her story. Even Tom mustn’t know the truth. Especially Tom. But what about the third shot, the one that she’d heard after she had left the bank and was crossing the street? Logically, there was only one other possible victim, and that was Mr Makin, the manager.

The Pike gang rarely leave witnesses if they’re recognized.

She’d heard Tom say this in the past. Now she knew it for a fact. But only Clay knew that Meg had been an eyewitness to Howie’s and Silas Pike’s murders, and he would say nothing to the other two men she had seen riding away with him, she could be certain of that.

But there had been another familiar name mentioned during the fracas – one spoken by Silas Pike. It hadn’t really registered with Meg at the time, she had been too fearful about what was going to happen to her. But now, sitting in the quietness of her room, she remembered it clearly.

Becky.

Meg only knew one girl called Becky, and that was Becky Garrod – who had apparently gone to stay with relatives up north, but whose stay was turning out to be longer than most folk in town had been led to believe it would be. Becky, the girl who had a reputation for wild and impetuous behaviour. Behaviour that had been the bane of her father’s life. Could it be a coincidence? Something told Meg it couldn’t.

The question was, did Harvey Garrod know that his daughter might be involved with the Pike gang? Surely not, or he would have done something about it.

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