The Floating Outfit 48 by J.T. Edson

Author:J.T. Edson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: kidnapping, mexico, piccadilly publishing, old west fiction, jt edson, the ysabel kid, ransom demands, best western ebook
Publisher: Piccadilly

Ten – Let Them Fight It Out

‘What a pretty watch, muchacha,’ Florencia Cazador remarked, in the heavily accented English she had picked up during her childhood around the small towns on both sides of the Rio Grande. Strolling with sensuous grace across the luxurious second bedroom of Don Ramon Manuel Jose Peraro’s living quarters above Bernardo’s Cantina, she reached with her left hand to take hold of the item to which she was referring and went on, ’57, it’s real pretty.’

‘It is,’ Mavis Dearington replied stiffly, pulling back a trifle without offering to rise from the comfortable bed on which she was sitting. ‘My parents gave it to me the Christmas before they died.’

No snob, the slender red headed American girl was nevertheless far from enamored of the way in which the voluptuous Mexican beauty was behaving!

However, because of the manner in which she had been treated by her captors—after the first rough handling—Mavis was more annoyed than disturbed by the derisive and offensive over-familiar attitude of Florencia.

Taking everything into consideration, apart from her deep concern for the welfare of Hettie Bonaparte, the red head was far less perturbed by her situation than she would have envisaged or believed possible if she had merely been imagining what it would be like to be the victim of a kidnapping by a gang of Mexican bandidos.

Nothing had happened as Mavis had anticipated!

On recovering from the punch delivered by Juan Pablo, the red head had not been allowed to render any assistance whatsoever to the big black woman. Instead she had been compelled to stand and watch while Hettie was revived by having tequila splashed into the bleeding grazes caused by the kicks she had received from Matteo Cantrell and forced into her mouth. Regardless of the protests made by the seething girl, the woman—who was obviously suffering serious injuries—had been loaded aboard the fringed topped Surrey. After an envelope had been stuffed into the pocket of her dress, the reins were wrapped around her barely operative hands and the horse was set moving in the direction of Wet Slim.

Not until after the vehicle and its barely conscious burden had gone from sight had Mavis given any thought to her own position!

Despite her educational standards on some subjects having been far less extensive than would be given to a later generation, the red head was far from unaware of one danger she might be facing. In fact, she had heard that the raping of female captives was the usual habit of Mexican bandidos. However, while she had been prepared to defend herself with every means in her power before submitting to such a fate, the need to do so had failed to materialize. None of them had offered to molest, or even so much as touch, her. Neither had she been searched, nor was the gold pendant watch—the only item of value she had with her—taken from her.

Instead, when the horses had been collected from their place of concealment, Mavis had had the loop of a lariat passed over her shoulders, and beneath her arms.

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