A Frontier Christmas by William W. Johnstone

Author:William W. Johnstone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2014-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

Sidewinder Gorge

Tim Adler walked into the main house, pushing Bad Eye Sal in front of him. “Look who I found trying to leave.”

Dingo, who had been drinking a beer, put down his glass and looked at Bad Eye Sal with an evil smile on his face. “I thought we had talked about this.”

“Max, please, let me go. You’ve got no right to keep me here if I don’t want to stay.”

Dingo stepped up to her and, with a vicious backhand, knocked her to the floor. “Get back into your room. I’ll deal with you later. If you try and leave again, I’ll kill you.”

“Ha!” Adler said. “She tried to tell me she was goin’ to town to get somethin’ for you, but I know’d she was lyin’.”

“Thanks for bringing her back,” Dingo said as he picked up his beer.

“Listen, I heard you was goin’ to give Jacobs ’n them Cave brothers fifty dollars apiece if they can kill MacCallister. Is that true?”

“Yeah.”

“They ain’t goin’ to get the job done.”

Dingo took a swallow of his beer, then studied Adler over the rim of the glass. “Why do you say that?”

“MacCallister is too good for them.”

“There’s three of them, only one of MacCallister.”

“From what I heard they was three to one before, too. Only MacCallister kilt one of ’em, and brung the other two in. I’m tellin’ you, they ain’t goin’ to get the job done for you.”

“Are you goin’ to tell me that you can?”

“Me, Jed Depro, Aaron Pollard, and Merlin Morris can. That is, if you’ll give us the same amount of money you’re givin’ them.”

Dingo raised an eyebrow. “A hundred and fifty dollars?”

“They’s four of us,” Adler said.

“So?”

“You’re givin’ them fifty dollars apiece. That’s what we want.”

“What makes you think you can do it, if they can’t?”

“We can do it ’cause we’re smarter. And that’s what it’s goin’ to take. It’s goin’ to take someone who is smart.”

Dingo nodded. “All right. I’ll give you fifty dollars apiece if you kill MacCallister.”

Adler smiled. “You got yourself a deal!”

“You don’t get the money until after the job is done,” Dingo said.

Adler ran his hand across the short, black stubbles on his cheek. “All right,” he said after a moment’s pause. “All right. We’ll do it.”

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