The Rider of Phantom Canyon by Don Bendell

Author:Don Bendell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-09-14T11:34:38+00:00

8

PUEBLO?

At First Street, Strongheart stopped and instructed Scottie, “Pack your saddlebags and bedroll and tell your aunt. Tomorrow morning, we’ll leave for Pueblo for several days. Make sure it is okay with her.”

“Okay, Joshua, but I know it will be,” Scottie said enthusiastically, and he rode off with a wave.

Strongheart turned right and rode to Main Street, just a block away, and turned east. He walked Eagle slowly through town, not realizing that many of the people looking at him thought about the fact that they were looking at a living legend. Strongheart was unaware that some men resented him and were jealous, and that many women looked at him and thought that if only their husband possessed this good trait or that good trait of Strongheart’s, all would be better with her world. Many women also simply looked at him and pictured in their mind’s eye what it would be like making love with the tall, well-muscled, handsome romantic.

He had planned to do a little shopping for some supplies and foodstuffs. It was much easier to ride the train between Pueblo and Cañon City and did not take that long, but Joshua wanted to make the forty-one-mile ride and poke around a little bit at some of the parcels of land that Clinton owned. Lucky did not have any immediate information or intelligence on the wealthy landowner, but pledged to check him out as much as possible.

He shopped for some supplies and would eat in town. There was a new place simply called the French Restaurant that he wanted to try out, as he had heard some good comments about it. Because of the hot mineral springs and favorable climate, Cañon City was becoming a tourist town, so there always seemed to be a few nice restaurants around.

Strongheart walked into the small café right at dark and saw candles everywhere, melted into the tops of empty French wine bottles.

An attractive waitress walked up to him and said, “Bonsoir, monsieur. Welcome. Where would you like to sit?”

Strongheart pointed at a corner table and said, “Bonsoir, mademoiselle. Comment allez-vous?”

She looked surprised and smiled flirtatiously, flicking her long eyelashes as she replied, “Je vais bien, merci, monsieur. Et vous?”

Strongheart smiled, saying, “Bien, merci,” as he sat down in the corner facing the door, as always.

She handed him the menu, and he started looking at items and was impressed.

“A wine, monsieur?” she asked.

“Non, merci, but I am ready to order. I’ll have bœuf l’entrecôte à la Provençal et sa ratatouille, s’il vous plaît?”

“Mais oui, monsieur! Très bien,” she said. “An excellent selection.”

He said, “How did Cañon City get a fine French restaurant like this?”

Just then the door opened, and a ravishingly beautiful woman walked in. Her hair was not just blond but looked like sunlight with melting honey dripping off of it, and it was naturally curly, yet hung all the way down her very slim waistline. Above that were a very shapely and firm bust and one of the most classically beautiful faces Joshua had ever seen.

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