Andromeda Gun by John Boyd

Andromeda Gun by John Boyd

Author:John Boyd [Boyd, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Science Fiction
Published: 2012-10-20T18:45:28+00:00


Before he walked through the swinging doors, Ian knew the poker tables had already been set up in Bain’s saloon. Inside, the player piano tinkled out “The Camptown Races” with a dull sound in the middle D, but the tinkle of glasses had slowed in tempo. The laughter of women had become more solicitous and strident, for now the girls had competition. Key change of all was the pleasant murmur underlying all other noises, the whirr of shuffled cards and click of tossed chips.

Entering, moving through the astringent odor of gamblers’ sweat, Ian asked the first bartender, “Where’s Bain?”

“In his office, first door right, at the end of the bar.”

He strode the sixty-odd feet to Bain’s office, past drinkers who eyed his badge with hostility, past Sheriff Faust, whose face was hidden in the foam of a schooner of beer, past six women held erect by their corsets and together by layers of makeup. He shouldered through the feminine ogles, unheeding, knowing the girls were overworked, and unwilling to add to their burdens. Only one of them, a chicken-necked, high-cheekboned, half-breed Shoshone, possessed even an approximation of youth and good looks, and Ian’s appreciation was as objective as it was casual. He had been touched by too fine a madness to be drawn to fallen women; he had looked upon Gabriella by starlight .



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