Drifter 5 by Jake Henry

Author:Jake Henry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: longhorn cattle, winchester rifle, cattle rustlers, colt 45, piccadilly publishing, jake henry, brett towns, raton pass
Publisher: Piccadilly

As soon as Savage hit the veranda, he took in the scene before him that was bathed in the orange glow of sunset.

A man stood beside the stage, arms up, hands held at shoulder height. The outlaw, Milo, stood with his six-gun trained on him. Savage guessed him to be the driver. He was a rail-thin man with a bushy mustache and unkempt, graying hair. His clothes were covered in dust.

Around ten yards from him lay another man. Most likely the shotgun guard. The Drifter guessed he was dead as he was unmoving.

The kid murmured, ‘This don’t look good.’

Ignoring him, Savage studied the other passengers. There were four of them. Three men and a woman. The latter had her head buried in the shoulder of a man maybe half a head taller than she was, as he consoled her.

The other two men showed the strain of the situation etched in their faces.

‘There was no need to shoot him, you son of a bitch!’

Savage’s eyes snapped back to the driver.

‘He shouldn’t have tried to shoot me with that scattergun of his,’ Milo said.

‘He wasn’t nowhere near it. You shot him down cold. And all because we wouldn’t pay ten dollars for the lousy toll. Ten dollars! You killed him for a lousy ten dollars.’

‘Everybody inside,’ Beck snarled. ‘Milo, get the stage around the back while I figure out what we’re going to do.’

Beck shifted his gaze back to Savage. ‘That means you two as well.’

The Drifter sensed rather than saw the tension come back to the kid’s body.

He said out of the corner of his mouth, ‘Leave it, kid. They’ll get theirs. Just not yet. I want to find out what their game is.’

They followed the others inside and found Milo and Beck in deep discussion. The outlaws stopped when they saw Savage and the kid come through the door.

‘What do you figure that’s about?’ Hanson asked.

A look of grim determination came over the outlaws’ faces, and they moved to close the gap between themselves, Hanson and Savage.

It was highly probable that nothing would happen, but when Milo dropped his hand to his gun butt, it was enough for Savage.

The Yellow Boy in his grasp swept up and roared. The sound was deafening in the enclosed space and it rocked the room. The .44 Henry slug slammed into Milo’s chest and kicked him back. He staggered and dropped to the floor, a scarlet blossom on his shirt growing larger as life-giving blood flowed freely.

Savage’s sudden movement and the subsequent violence of it all took everyone by surprise. So much so that the Drifter had already jacked another round into the Winchester’s chamber before they even thought to react.

By then it was too late.

‘What the hell?’ Beck snarled. ‘Christ, what did you do that for?’

The Yellow Boy centered on the outlaw’s chest. Savage said, ‘Just getting in first.’

‘Dude, that was fast,’ there was awe in the kid’s voice. ‘But what happened to wait and see?’

‘Keep the others covered,’ Savage ordered. ‘The rest of you assholes, drop your gun belts before you join your friend on the floor.

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