White Apache 5 by David Robbins

Author:David Robbins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: piccadilly publishing, david robbins, jake mcmasters, clay taggart, apache indians of the old west, ebook western story, white apache western series
Publisher: Piccadilly Publishing

Chapter Seven

It had seemed like a good idea at the time.

When Maria Gonzalez had seen the six men approaching the pass, she had gone giddy with joy. They were Mexicans! Her own kind! Men who would help her. Men who would save her from the Apaches.

So without thinking, Maria had bolted past the White Apache and down the trail toward the burly man who led the six. She had shouted to alert them to their peril and been overjoyed when she’d reached the leader without taking a bullet in the back.

The events happened so quickly that Maria was astride the man’s horse and fleeing down the mountain before she could collect her wits. Rather belatedly she realized that the man who had rescued her smelled badly. Besides that, he had a harsh air about him, even more cruel than that of the Apaches. His beady eyes actually scared her when he glanced back a few times as if to assure himself that she was indeed there.

And the man was a coward. When she was running toward him, she had seen his terror of the Apaches, a cringing terror the likes of which her father and uncle would never display.

They were bandits, Maria realized, and her heart sank within her. The horror stories she had heard about bandits rivaled those about Apaches. Having lived the sheltered life of a pampered señorita, she had never seen either until this fateful trip, and she hoped to high heaven she never saw either again, provided she lived long enough to get to somewhere safe.

Because there was nothing else to hang onto, Maria had to grasp the big man’s bandoleers to keep from losing her balance on his mount. The man rode with reckless abandon, swerving wildly through tracts of trees and taking the slopes of gullies at breakneck speed. They were lucky the horse didn’t break a leg and throw them both.

Then the leader reined up. But he stopped only long enough to tell one of his men to keep an eye on their back trail and bushwhack anyone who showed. The other bandit wasn’t happy about being the one picked to cover their flight, but evidently his fear of the bandit leader was greater than his fear of the Apaches because he agreed and climbed down.

The big leader lashed his horse and they galloped along for over an hour, until they were well off the mountain and out on the desert to the east. The man had an amazing knack for finding gulches and arroyos through which to travel. It was as if he knew the lay of the land as well as he knew the lines in the palms of his hands.

Finally, when Maria was so tired and sore that she worried she would collapse and fall, the leader drew rein again in a dry wash rimmed by dry brush. There was a small spring, as close to dry as a spring could be and still be worthy of the name. The leader jumped down, dropped to his knees, and guzzled the water like a hog at the trough.

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