Bannerman the Enforcer 15 by Kirk Hamilton

Author:Kirk Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Piccadilly

Six – Operating Cash

“I’ve got to get out of here!”

Kate Dukes hurried across the room as Yancey threw off the bed covers and tried to swing his legs over the side of the bed. But, before she reached him, his face drained of color and he sagged back on the pillows, closing his eyes and gripping the edge of the mattress tightly. Kate shook her head slowly, pushed his legs back into bed and drew the covers over him. He looked up at her.

“Now will you believe me and Dr. Boles when we say you’re not fit yet to be up and about?” she said with annoyance in her voice. “You need to recover more of your strength yet before you think about moving out of here Yancey Bannerman.”

He nodded slowly. “Maybe,” he told her tightly, still not willing to give in all the way. “But someone’s gotta go help Johnny before he gets himself killed. He’s taking fool risks!”

“Yes, he is,” Kate agreed, “but two of you taking fool risks would make the whole thing worse.”

“Damn it, I could slow him down! He’d listen to me; Even if he didn’t, I could soon figure what he had in mind next and be one jump ahead of him, or back him up when he needed it. This way, he’s a lone gun and he’s going to walk into something he can’t get out of unless he gets some help.”

“Johnny Cato doesn’t want any help right now, Yancey,” Kate told him. “He wants to do this thing alone. You can understand how he thinks.”

“Sure, and that’s just why I’ve got to get out of here and help him. He don’t give a damn for himself right now. He’ll take any kind of risk just to get a crack at Guthrie. But the odds are getting too big. Look, Johnny’s wiped out the Harlow bunch and the Fogarty gang up in Mustang Canyon. He’s gone through Del Rio and Uvalde like a Texas twister, leaving dead men strewn all over the trail. Latest word is he was hit in the Uvalde shoot-out, but no one seems to know how bad. Well, it doesn’t have to be too damn serious to slow him down just enough to double the danger. He nearly nailed Guthrie in Uvalde, it seems, and might’ve got him if that hombre hadn’t back shot him.”

“I know, Yancey,” cut in Kate, sympathetically, “but if you …”

“He was just plumb lucky the bullet didn’t smash his spine,” Yancey went on, as if she hadn’t spoken. “By now Guthrie’s getting mighty desperate, I’d say. A lot of his pards won’t touch him with a corral pole. They figure that Cato ain’t the only one after him, that the other law-enforcement agencies won’t be far behind. And they’re right. But the Rangers and marshals are using Cato. They know he’ll work a hell of a lot harder than they can, that he’ll get his information without having to worry about the restrictions of the law, the way they have to operate.

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