The Red Bandanna by Max Brand

Author:Max Brand [Brand, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Western
Publisher: Roy Glashan's Library
Published: 2013-05-18T23:00:00+00:00

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VII. — TRUE TO TRAVIS

Clancy locked the door when the clerk had gone out of the bedroom. It was a flimsy affair, that door. It looked as though even a boy could give it the weight of a lunging shoulder and knock it flat.

That made him get out his revolver. It was obviously dirty. It needed cleaning and oiling. So he robbed off the dust and spun the cylinder to free it. Then he put the Colt back in the holster, looking at the door. Perhaps the five bullets in that gun would have to serve in lieu of stronger locks and bolts to shield him from his enemies.

He went to the window. There was a one-story drop to the ground. The eaves of another window projected just above him. A cat or a man like Travis might be able to climb up to his room by this route, but he would have to take chances. Clancy was tired, and he must be more rested when the crisis came. It would come that night, of course.

He pulled off his boots, stretched himself out on the bed, and folded his hands under his head. In all the world there was no one like Olivia. She grew in his mind as the sun grows in a winter sky. She doubted and half despised him, she was tortured with pain on account of him, but she loved him. He considered the ache in his own heart impersonally. It was as though bullets had tom through him there, but still he lived on.

In another moment he had closed his eyes and was asleep.

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