The Outlaws 4 by Brian Garfield

Author:Brian Garfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cowboys, death wish, lynching, piccadilly publishing, wild west stories, outlaws of the old west, brian garfield westerns
Publisher: Piccadilly

The stage rattled up through Wolf Pass, going slowly on the slippery roadbed and the high slant of the hill, the mules kicking up a steady struggling gait. On the box, the shotgun guard gripped his rifle and tried to burn away the thin mist of rain with his searching eyes.

“Jeremy,” the driver said, “I don’t know but what we ought to turn back. This is goin’ to hit pretty quick now.” The storm advanced across the sky, a marching phalanx of black thunderheads and rolling thunder.

Jeremy said, “We can make O’Boyle’s station all right.”

A rifle shot came from the rocks above the road; before its echoes died, the shotgun guard, Jeremy, was face-down across the dashboard, his arms hanging free. The driver raised his whip; a voice came from ahead of him in the strange noon-night, saying easily: “Leave them lay, driver.” A muffled figure dropped to the top of the coach from an overhang on the trail; the bandit pulled four heavy boxes from the boot and tossed them one by one to the ground. One of them split open. A second man came out of the swirling half-dark and called, “All right, all passengers—outside. Hurry it up, I ain’t waitin’ on no tea party.”

The coach’s only passenger stepped out: a young blond dude in a gray suit and derby hat. The taller outlaw came up to him, snatched away the dude’s hat, and held it upside down. “Put it in here. Watch, money, ring, whatever you got.”

Suddenly the young man began to weep. He sat down in the thin crust of snow and cried, Menendez’ voice cut harshly through the mist: “Jesus Christ.” Menendez shot the young dude three times through the chest.

Holliday dropped the overturned hat and said, “Goddam it, you had no call to do that!” He went to the pack horse and began tying the bullion boxes aboard the animal. He called, “Get out of here, driver.”

“I want to put those bodies on board.”

“Then be quick about it.” Holliday mounted his horse and took the pack animal’s lead-rope; he said, “Let’s get the hell out of here,” and rode into the storm.

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