The Ghost of Iron Eyes (An Iron Eyes Western Book 8) by Rory Black

Author:Rory Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: bounty hunter, old west, gunfighters, us marshal, rory black, western pulp fiction, iron eyes
Publisher: Piccadilly Publishing

Chapter Twelve

What remained of Diamond City’s men folk was a broken group who had still not fully accepted the fact that nearly a tenth of their fellow citizens had already been slain by the thirteen outlaws who had unexpectedly ridden into their midst. What remained were the very young, the very old and those in-between who posed little or no threat to anyone. For these men had no knowledge of killing, unlike the outlaws who had taken over their town. These people were just ordinary hard-working souls who did not deserve the plague in human form that had infected their remote settlement. As they tentatively moved around the blood-splattered streets, trying to go about their daily tasks, they never once took their eyes from the wide-open door of the sun-bleached hotel.

‘Look at ’em, boys,’ Jardine muttered, glancing briefly out into the bright street. ‘I never seen so many terrified folks before. The trouble is, have we killed too many of their kin to be able ever to turn our backs on the survivors?’

‘It weren’t us that done all the killin’, Henry,’ Skeet Bodine corrected.

‘Yeah, I know.’ Henry Jardine knew that things had to change within the tightly grouped gang of outlaws whom he had led to Diamond City. For although he had guided them from one profitable bank- and stage-robbery to another, he knew that the three Darrow brothers had a different agenda from any of the rest of the outlaws. They simply could not resist killing and Jardine knew that it was only a matter of time before they turned their weaponry on him and the rest of the outlaws.

Jardine himself was no stranger to killing, but he had always killed for a purpose, the main one being that he simply wanted to cover his tracks and eliminate any evidence of his crimes. That was why he had killed the sheriff and allowed the telegraph worker to be maimed to stop him sending any more messages for help to the outside world.

Jardine was well aware that even he had fallen into the trap of self-delusion that once the notorious bounty hunter Iron Eyes had disappeared three-quarters of a year earlier, the odds of their never being hunted down and brought to account had swung in his fellow outlaws’ favor.

But the trail behind the gang was littered with death: death that had no rhyme nor reason. Not even to Jardine. The Darrows had simply allowed the pleasure of killing to overwhelm them. Now they were even dangerous to their fellow outlaws as well as those whom they saw as their enemies.

As the Darrows continued to take their pleasures with the dozen or more females they had dragged up to their rooms above the saloon, Jardine had gathered the rest of his men together in the hotel opposite.

Each and every one of them knew why Jardine had called them together so abruptly. The time had come for the Darrow brothers and the rest of the gang to go their separate ways, but they all knew that men like Toke, Fern and Jade were not the kind to vex.

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