The Venom of Iron Eyes by Rory Black

Author:Rory Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: bounty hunter, colt 45, western heroes, western cowboy, western ebooks, george g gilman, piccadilly publishing, old west gunfighters, western lawman, best western ebooks
Publisher: Piccadilly

Chapter Ten

SHE WAS LIKE a mountain cat: fast and silent as she hit the soft muddy ground with her Winchester clutched in her small hands. Yet Squirrel Sally Cooke wanted to scream even louder than she had done a few heartbeats earlier. The sight of the long-legged bounty hunter spilling blood from a thousand wounds made her remember discovering her dead family only a very few days before. Iron Eyes had become her entire world. If she had now lost him as well, she dreaded what remained of her existence. He did not know it, but he had become her only reason to live.

Leaving her rifle on the boardwalk propped up against a wooden upright Squirrel Sally waded out in her bare feet through the ice-cold water and mud to the pair of silent figures who were sinking fast.

‘Iron Eyes,’ she frantically blazed into his ear. There was no response. ‘You better not be dead, you stupid bastard. I’ll kill you if you are.’

Squirrel looked at the sheriff. He was grunting each time his head sank beneath the surface of the flooded street. ‘Wake up, Sheriff. Wake up, you fat old man.’

Like the bounty hunter beside him Jonas Welch seemed totally unable to do anything except drown.

‘Reckon I’d better get you both on to them boards yonder.’ She grabbed the collar of the sheriff and gripped the mane of long black hair floating above Iron Eyes’ submerged head. The tiny female wrapped the hair around her wrist and hauled both men’s heads out of their watery graves. Using the water to float her burdens Squirrel dragged them across the surface of the knee-deep water. The mud sucked at her tiny feet but she was determined to achieve her goal. Squirrel did not stop until she had reached the steps leading up to the boardwalk.

A crowd of men had gathered to watch the spectacle.

None ventured down from the boardwalk to assist the struggling female, however.

Mustering every ounce of her strength Squirrel Sally heaved the hefty lawman up and rested his bulk against the steps. Sheriff Welch was riddled with countless shards of glass and wood and bleeding like a stuck pig from nearly every wound. She patted his head as he lay coughing and then turned to the bounty hunter. Iron Eyes seemed to be lifeless but she had seen him that way before.

She took hold of his mane of black hair and pulled his thin body up until it rested next to the lawman. Unlike Welch the bounty hunter was entirely motionless. A large dagger-shaped piece of glass was stuck in his thin shoulder. Blood squirted from around the injury. Without even thinking Squirrel pulled the glass out of his flesh, tossed it aside, then pressed her small hand on to the wound. Blood trickled from the gaps in her fingers.

Both men had been pierced with countless bits of debris. They looked like porcupines. Frantically the young female began to pull the brutal fragments of wood and glass from Iron Eyes’ body.

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