Spanish Crossing by Alan Lemay

Author:Alan Lemay
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Westerns, Fiction
ISBN: 9781477841433
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2013-10-15T08:00:00+00:00

Cantrell stuck to this program for better than two whole days. Mid-morning of the third day he pulled up his mules, and sat gloomily on the back of one of them, his sleet-blue eyes on the broken horizon.

"1 don't know but what I'll quit, too," said Happy Withers.

"The Oregon country is great stuff in spring," Cantrell said. But he was thinking of something else. There should have been some other way of getting this work done. There was a broken-down tractor on the place, but it lacked parts, and the company which had made it was extinct. There should have been some way of siphoning the water, instead of the massive labor of building a new sluice, but the levels were all wrong, and there were no materials. There was one power pump in the valley, but someone else was using that.

Cantrell unhooked his team. "I'll be back by sundown."

"You figure to draw your time?"

"Not yet."

The black anger was on him again, driving him into unsparing effort. For five days the fit held on.

On the sixth day Cantrell showed up on Bitter Flats, where Andrews was branding. He was equipped for rope work.

"Well, the water's running on the hay."

Old Man Andrews was tall and stooped, with sun-weary eyes that had lost their color, and a bony bald head. When emergency roused other men to a fury of action, old Andrews was accustomed to spit ironically and hold his own pace. But now genuine terror whipped across his craggy features.

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