Chance Reilly by Patrick Lindsay

Author:Patrick Lindsay [Lindsay, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-10T21:00:00+00:00

… Sam polished the bar absently while watching the two men who had come into his saloon. They were drifters, by the look of them, and he expected they would just pass on through town. It was the fragment of conversation he’d picked up when he delivered their beer that had gotten his attention. He’d picked up the name Carson. When he’d hesitated after setting the bottles down, they’d buttoned up and stopped talking. He polished some more and watched from the corner of his eyes while they lowered the levels on the beer. After a while, he motioned his nephew Mike to come over. He gestured toward the table with the two drifters. “Go over and see if they want another beer. If you hear any of their conversation, I want to know about it.” Mike looked at him quizzically. Sam shrugged. “Just do it” he advised. “I especially want to know if you hear any names. Don’t come back and talk to me until you’re done serving them.”

Mike nodded and walked over to the table. Sam turned and walked to the end of the bar, watching the reflection in the saloon window as Mike walked over and talked to the strangers. He returned, picked up two more bottles of beer and carried them back to the table. After he had left the beer, taken their money, and come back to the register, Sam walked over to him. “Well?” he asked. Mike put the money in the register, then turned his back on the center of the saloon as he answered. “I couldn’t make much of the conversation. Maybe a few names, though.” Sam waited. “One name sounded like Red, and the other might have been Santos. Plus they mentioned the two remaining Carson brothers.”

Sam stared at the bar and let that one sink in. It sounded like the worst possible news. He’d half expected that Red would come back to see the other two Carson brothers. Red probably liked stealing money better than earning it, and the setup for cattle rustling with the Carsons had been too good to leave. The name Santos was also a concern. He was known in the territory as a small time gunfighter, probably bigger in his own mind than anyone else’s, but he wouldn’t object to bushwhacking a man, as Red had tried to do. That made him dangerous. Sam absently served another whiskey at the bar and considered his options. They would find out soon enough that Chance had left the area. Sam still disagreed with that decision by the sheriff. Certain people would never make the peace lawfully and willfully, and the Carson brothers were among those, especially after their brother died. Better to face them and have it out now than wait for them to pick the time and place… too late for that.

Sam considered a few avenues in his mind while he picked up some dirty glasses and carried them back over to the bar. He thought about paying a visit to Sheriff Stanton, but dismissed that almost immediately.

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