The Deer Run Trail by David R Lewis

Author:David R Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, suspense, coming of age, missouri, western, saga, cowboys, old west, lawman, 1880s, gunfighter, shootist, pistoleer, u s marshal
Publisher: David R Lewis

I walked on over to Arliss’ place an’ found him jawin’ with the bluevest, Clarence Banks. They was lookin’ at a old Henry rifle with a broke stock helt together with wood screws.

“It was my daddy’s,” Clarence was sayin’. “It works fine, but I’d just like to have it fixed if it can be done.”

“Can it be done, Rube?” Arliss asked.

I said hello to Clarence an’ looked at the gun. “Well, it can be done,” I said, “but I don’t know if I can do it. I ain’t never done anything like makin’ a gunstock.”

While I was talkin’, Arliss fussed with it an’ took the stock off. I looked at it for a minute, then turned to Clarence. “Can you leave it for a while?” I asked him.

“Yessir,” he said. “It ain’t been shot or even loaded in years.”

“I got some other stuff I gotta do that’ll take some time, but I should be able to get to it in two or three weeks. I cain’t make ya no promises I can make new stock though.”

“You damn sure can’t hurt it none,” Clarence said.

“All right,” I said. “I’ll take a try at it. How long you been a deputy, Clarence?”

“Be four years this October,” he said. “I got hired on right after Arberry won the election.”

“He’s elected? I didn’t know that. I thought he was just hired.”

“No,” Clarence said. “He got elected near six years ago, an’ re-elected four years ago this September.’ An’ agin two years ago this September.”

“The elections are in September?”

“Third Thursday of the month, ever two years,” Clarence said. “Got the Fourth of July comin’ up before very long. We’ll be closin’ down two blocks of the main street. Have bingo an’ cakewalks. Box dinner an’ supper auctions, big cookout, games for the kids, shootin’ contests an’ the like. All kinds of things. Oughta be a time.”

“Sounds like it,” Arliss said. “Lookin’ forward to it.”

“Thanks fellers,” Clarence said. “I’ll leave ya to do whatever ya can.”

He went ahead an’ left, an’ I caught Arliss studyin’ on me.

“What?” I said.

“I was about to ask you the same thing,” he said.

“What?” I said.

“That’s it,” he said. “What. What is goin’ on in that mind a yours?”

I grinned at him. “What makes you think there’s somethin’ goin’ on in my mind?” I asked him.

“’Cause I’m gittin’ nervous,” he said.

“Well, you can git nervous all by yourself,” I told him. “I’m goin’ to work.”

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