Dead Warrior by John Myers Myers

Author:John Myers Myers [Myers, John Myers]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4405-6463-5
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

EARLY IN MARCH THE WIND blew the frost out of the mountains and into our bones. The temperatures didn’t get low by the standards of non-Arizonans, but we were used to still air and mildness. The strong nor’easter made itself at home in our summer-style buildings and brought the dust with it. Everybody walked around with hunched shoulders, fidgety and irritable.

It was to find an anodyne for the cruelty of the elements that a few of us convened in the Paradise Enow during hours normally dedicated to work. While we stood there, with little to say to each other, a prospector called Frank Fillmore rode his horse through the door.

“Hi, Sam; hi, Terry; hi, Dick; hi, Baltimore,” he said. “Give me a quick one, Pete.”

Tending bar there, Rogue River Pete looked disapproving. “Don’t you see that sign?” he challenged.

There was a piece of paper tacked on one of the walls which had a bearing on the case, and all of us turned to reread its message.

HORSES STRICTLY FORBIDDEN

UNLESS THEY’RE CASH CUSTOMERS,

WEAR DIAPERS OR CAN RECITE

THE LORD’S PRAYER IN APACHE.

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