The RECKONING: A Jess Williams Western by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Action & Adventure, Westerns
Amazon: B005C5Z31Y
Publisher: R & T Enterprise Inc.
Published: 2011-07-08T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Sheriff Mark Steele was definitely a hard case. One who didn’t fool around with anyone causing him trouble or breaking the law. He’d rather lock them up as talk to them. If they resisted, he’d just as soon shoot them. He had lived in Timber for ten years now. He had moved to Timber from another small town in Texas where his father had been a lawman. His father had always carried a shotgun along with a forty-five. Steele didn’t carry a shotgun much, only when he was facing a crowd. He’d only had to do that twice so far. Once when he had a cowhand in jail who had raped one of the young girls in town while in a drunken stupor, and another time when he was trying to break up a fight between the ranch hands of two competing landowners. They were always fighting over the water rights concerning the only river that flowed year round through Timber and the surrounding area. He was good enough with his pistol skills to handle most situations. It was his attitude, however, that always carried him through trouble.

He had a confident air about him that most men could sense right off. He showed no fear in a gunfight even though, as most men did, he surely feared getting shot. Even when he took a bullet in the left shoulder five years back when he tried to get a hotheaded gunslinger to give up his gun and go to jail willingly. He simply stuffed a bar towel in his shirt, told a few men in the saloon to carry the body over to the undertaker’s office, and then walked over to the doc’s office. After the doc fixed him up, he went right back to work doing his final check for the night around town. He hurt like hell, but he would never show it. He figured that’s what the townspeople expected out of a sheriff and he wasn’t going to give anything less.

He did have a soft spot for the ladies though, especially Patti. He had an ongoing battle with River Bend Bill over the years concerning Patti. Every time Steele had Patti convinced to marry him, Bill would show up just long enough to spoil it. He couldn’t understand why any woman, especially a good looking woman like Patti Nate, would ever give an old codger like River Bend Bill a second look or even the time of day. He was dirty, dressed like an old farmer and just plain smelled most of the time. Steele was sure that he was finally winning Patti over and he wasn’t about to let old Bill mess it up this time. He was on the lookout for him. He even put the word out on the street with the other men in town to let him know if River Bend Bill showed up anywhere in town.

Sheriff Steele had risen extra early today and went to his office to check out some paperwork that he had been avoiding for days.

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