Bannerman the Enforcer 39 by Kirk Hamilton

Author:Kirk Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cowboys, action hero, gunfighters, colt 45, piccadilly publishing, the wild west, jt edson, best western ebook, western fiction ebooks
Publisher: Piccadilly

In the kitchen, Tate turned to his sister and spoke in a low voice.

“What’re you doin’? He can’t stay here! I guess you can dig the slug out of him, all right, but he’s got to move on! Pronto!”

“Why?” the girl asked. “Give me one good reason why, Tate.”

“Damn it, you know why!”

She shook her head. “No, I don’t know why. I don’t see that we can throw him out.”

“Uh?”

“Not a man who’s that fast with a gun.”

Tate’s jaw sagged as he blinked at his sister.

“You saw the way he came off that bed,” the girl said. “He was like lightning. He could have nailed us both and we’d never have seen him do it. Man with reflexes like that isn’t any ordinary cowpoke. And did you see the rifle in the scabbard attached to his saddle rig in a corner of your room? It’s got an over-sized lever on it. I’ve read of those. Some men use them for fast-shooting. They can get off a whole magazine of shots in less time than it takes to say your name. Lawmen use them. Men on the dodge use them. But not the working cowpoke or range ranny.”

“Good grief, we don’t want a lawman here!”

“Why? We’ve done nothing wrong.”

“You loco? What about ...?”

“We’ve done nothing wrong!” the girl cut in, speaking the words slowly. “Get that through your head, Tate. We haven’t broken any law and no one could say we have.”

“But—”

“No! Everything’s just as it was. So we’re all right.”

“Even so, we don’t want no lawman here.”

“We don’t know for sure he is.”

“Gunfighter’s worse.”

“I don’t see it. I’ll remove that bullet. He should rest for at least a couple of days. A man who can handle a gun as fast as he can is a good man to have around—in case of unwanted visitors.”

Tate looked at her sharply. “Not likely, is it?”

“We can’t be sure. I say we use this Bannerman as insurance. He’ll be on our side. He’ll have to be if I dig out that bullet and tend to his wants and we feed him. He’ll be obligated, and that applies whether he’s lawman or gunfighter.” She looked levelly at her brother and said firmly, “So I say he stays.”

Tate sighed heavily.

“Well, I guess you’ve been proved right so many times in the past, it’d be loco for me to go against you now, Sis.” He gave her a quick grin. “So whatever you say.”

Deborah smiled and opened the bedroom door, going inside to where Yancey sat on the edge of the bed, face gray and drawn with pain.

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