The Fifth Western Novel MEGAPACK ®: 4 Novels of the Old West by Walter A. Tompkins & Allan K. Echols & Dean Owen & Jackson Gregory

Author:Walter A. Tompkins & Allan K. Echols & Dean Owen & Jackson Gregory [Tompkins, Walter A.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: gunslinger, indian, western, Texas, cowboy
ISBN: 9781479407019
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

“At any rate, he sold out all our merchandise and our livestock, and he came back here with the money. I understand that he managed to pull the wool over Eric’s eyes, and yours. I heard that he’d even become so bold that he was using your house as his headquarters.”

“Who was telling you that?” Mrs. Halsell asked.

“I got it indirectly from Asa Cromwell, himself.”

“Indirectly from the man himself,” Mrs. Halsell repeated. “Does that make sense, Emory? Did you get it indirectly, or from the man himself?”

“Well, I got it from the man who heard him explaining things.”

“Who was that?”

“Pardon me, Mrs. Halsell, but I’m not at liberty to say.”

“Then what did you want to see me about?”

“I wanted to ask you to cooperate with us in catching Jim Webster. First, I’d like to pick up that fake evidence, those guns and so forth. Then, I’m sure he must have left the money with you for safekeeping. I know, of course, that you don’t want to be helping a crook rob your friends.”

“No,” Mrs. Halsell answered slowly. “I certainly don’t want to be helping a crook rob my friends. What do you want me to do?”

“I’d like you to give me those guns so that I can destroy them, and I’d like you to give me the money that he gave you to keep.”

“I have no guns here,” Mrs. Halsell said.

“Well, that’s not important,” Dustin said. “But the money is; part of it is mine, the rest Faulkner’s. I’m sure you won’t want to keep stolen money from its rightful owners.”

“Of course not, Emory. But I have no stolen money.”

“Do you mean to say that Webster did not leave any money in your keeping?”

“Why, yes. I mean to say exactly that. Are you doubting my word?”

Emory Dustin was silent for a moment, then turned on his best smile. “I don’t like to doubt the word of a lady,” he said, “but I believe that Webster has fooled you so completely that you’re trying to be loyal to a trust. So, with no offense, I don’t believe you.”

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