EDGE: The Final Shot (Edge series Book 16) by George G. Gilman

Author:George G. Gilman [Gilman, George G.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Lobo publications (A High Plains Wesrern)
Published: 2013-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

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‘STAY mounted, lady,’ the new sheriff of Monksville said. ‘And you guys get up slow and unbuckle your gun belts.’

‘If we don’t?’ Melody Devine challenged.

‘I start blasting.’

‘At an unarmed woman?’

‘Guess.’

She still had her back to him as she sat her horse in the centre of the square, peering over her shoulder through the falling dusk. It took her just a second to reach the decision. Then she swung her head around to glare at her brothers.

‘Do like he says!’ she ordered. ‘He’s not kidding.’

Lon and Clayton glanced at each other, but found their gaze drawn back to the angry face of their sister. The Bowie knife was dropped, then the two men straightened up, took off their gun belts and allowed them to fall to the ground. Not until then did Gerstenberg push wide the batswings to hurry out into the square, leading the doddering town councilors and every other aged customer from the saloon. Other doors opened around the square to give exit to the horrified and curious watchers. And lamps were lit to spill yellow illumination out on to the square, holding back the encroachment of night.

Edge, the rifle lowered to his hip, kept ahead of the crowd. He halted beside the woman.

‘Off, and into the law office, lady,’ he ordered.

She showed him a look of angry confidence that stopped short of bravado. Then she swung down to the ground, always covered by the rifle, which acted to hold her brothers inactive.

‘You won’t get a conviction, mister hard man,’ she taunted.

‘Ain’t my job,’ he replied, nudging her in the small of the back with the Winchester muzzle.

As she headed for the still-darkened law office, he nodded for Lon and Clayton to lead the way. They did, and as soon they cleared the area around the terribly injured Andrews, the townspeople crowded around the rear of the stage.

The law office had only a single cell, at the rear through an archway. The door was still open from when the last prisoner was dragged out.

‘He’s the only thing we have to fear,’ Melody warned sharply as she saw her brothers glance at the rack of rifles behind the desk.

The men did not reply and led the way into the cell. Their sister entered behind them and Edge used the barrel of the rifle to swing the door closed. The key - one of a bunch on a metal ring - was still in the lock. He turned it and withdrew it.

‘There’s only one cot in here!’ Melody complained as the half-breed went back through the archway.

He struck a match, lit the lamp on the desk and then opened the pot-bellied stove in a corner of the office. ‘Only got the job for a day,’ he answered as he started to set a fire in the cleaned-out stove. ‘Won’t have the time to do any refurnishing.’

‘We’ll manage, sis,’ Clayton growled sourly. ‘Just for the one night.’

‘That’s right!’ Melody agreed, the complaining tone gone from her voice. ‘Judge Hewitt’s always liked me.

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