The Iron Eyes Collection by Rory Black

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

CHAPTER ONE

There had been just enough time for the tall, thin bounty hunter to water and feed the magnificent palomino stallion in the tiny Mexican settlement before he had continued on his quest to capture the elusive outlaws he had trailed across the border. The faces of the small settlement’s people watched as Iron Eyes consumed half a bottle of rye and then returned the cork to its neck. Their unblinking eyes had watched the pitifully lean man in the long, blood-stained trail coat as he moved around the tail of his mount and checked the stallion for injury.

With every step his sharp spurs rang out in the quiet array of almost identical dwellings. The setting sun had lavished a crimson hue on the stranger they fearfully watched from their hiding places. None of them had ever seen anything quite like it before. For the fiery rays of the setting sun gave Iron Eyes the appearance of being aflame.

When satisfied that the stallion had eaten and drunk its fill, the fearless bounty hunter had known it was time to continue his deadly search.

It was only when Iron Eyes had pulled his long leathers free of a hitching pole and stepped back into a stirrup that they began to breathe again.

Then the solemn silence which had greeted the bounty hunter was broken by a rasping voice Iron Eyes recognized. He turned slowly with his long leathers in his bony grip and stared through the moonlight at the bulky frame of Hogan Defoe as he strode out from the cantina toward his oldest rival. Defoe was a bounty hunter like the pitifully gaunt man he railed against. Yet Defoe had even less morals than Iron Eyes and it showed.

‘If it ain’t my old pal, Iron Eyes,’ he said as he paced out into the sand and then rested. The bulky man rested his knuckles on his hips and glared through his bushy eyebrows at the man he hated almost as much as the wanted outlaws he hunted. ‘What brings you to these parts?’

Iron Eyes did not answer the question as he looped his long leathers around the hitching pole and then walked away from the handsome palomino.

‘I asked you a damn question, scarecrow,’ Defoe yelled.

Iron Eyes stopped and stood like a deathly vision. The lantern light danced across the grips of his matched Navy Colts as they poked out from his flat stomach.

‘You talking to me, Hogan?’ he asked as he shook his long mane of black hair off his face and squinted at the troublesome man twenty feet from where he stood.

Defoe raised his left hand and jabbed angrily at the air between them. ‘You’re after Running Wolf, ain’t you?’

The gaunt bounty hunter raised an eyebrow.

‘I didn’t even know that Injun was in these parts,’ he answered as his long fingers flexed as they hovered in the air. ‘I’m hunting different game.’

There seemed to be no reason why the far larger man was so angered by the sight of the infamous Iron Eyes, yet he was.

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