Bullet for a Stranger by Johnstone William W.; Johnstone J.A

Author:Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J.A.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-six

The oil lamps were lit in Fredericksburg when Hannah Huckabee rode in on a tired horse. The town was settled by German farmers and had none of the saloons and whorehouses of the Texas cattle towns, although their several beer halls did a lively business. It was a clean, well-ordered settlement of stone and plaster houses, churches, and schools. The county seat of Gillespie County, it had a sheriff who spoke German and broken English and attended Lutheran services every Sunday.

Fredericksburg was a straitlaced town, a civilized town, a peaceful town . . . and not a good town in which to kill a man.

Hannah rode along the main street, lined with a large variety of stores on each side, past some warehouses, and then drew rein when she spotted a large, white-painted building with a sign above the double doors that read:

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