Barjack and the Unwelcome Ghost by Robert J Conley

Author:Robert J Conley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.

Chapter Thirteen

Well, hell, the sun was long down whenever we got our ass back into town, and we hauled up in front a’ the Hooch House and stopped at the hitch rail. Miller was down in the street in a hurry. Polly was right behint him. They had both of them reached the front door and was a-going in, and I was still a-setting in the saddle. By God, my bones and muscles was aching bad. I looked down at the ground, and it sure as hell seemed a long ways down there. I knowed there wasn’t no one going to give me a hand in getting down, so I final lifted my ass up and swung my right leg over the back a’ my ole nag. Whenever my feet hit the ground, I felt a sharp pain run all the way up my legs and into my spine, and I groaned out loud. Good thing there weren’t no one around to hear me. I looped the reins around the rail and turned my ass toward the front door, and it tuck ever’thing I had to amble myself up onto the sidewalk and on into the Hooch House. Whenever I stepped inside, I stopped and looked the place over. Applewhite had hisself a few cardplayers. I needed a little break before I went to walking across that big room.

I seed right off that Polly and Miller the Churkee had done made their way back to my table, and they was setting there with ole Bonnie and Butcher and Happy and Dingle and Sly. Well, I drawed myself up as tall as I could and started in to walking back there as straight and tall as I could muster up. Ever’ step hurt, though. I was a-thinking that now I had as much reason for wanting to kill that goddamn Cody as ever Churkee or Polly had, on account a’ him stealing our horses was the cause a’ my present misery. I made it all right back to my table, and my own personal and private chair was setting empty right beside a’ Bonnie, so I pulled it back and set down in it. Bonnie grabbed me right fast and hugged me tight as hell, and goddamn it hurt my sore muscles. Final, after she give me a real slobbery kiss, she turned mostly a loose a’ me.

No one ast me no questions, on account a’ they had done quizzed up Polly and Miller and got all the answers they wanted about our recent activities. I was hoping they hadn’t tole about the episode with our horses. That whole thing was goddamned embarrassing. Now we all knowed that goddamned Cody was somewhere real close by, but Miller had lost his tracks a couple miles outside a’ Asininity, so we wasn’t atall sure a’ where the son of a bitch had went.

“Churkee,” I said, “have you tole about tracking that bastard near back here?”

“Yes, I did, Barjack,” Miller said.

“Has anyone seed him come into town?” I ast around to ever’one.

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