Halliday 3 by Adam Brady

Author:Adam Brady
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: action hero, gunfighters, the old west, colt 45, piccadilly publishing, pulp westerns, bbw westerns, westerns ebook, westerns 1880s, westerns by adam brady
Publisher: Piccadilly

Red Barrett put a fresh bandage on his wrist and said;

“We can take ’em with no trouble, Mr. Dean. They never even come close to hittin’ anything after all that shootin’.”

“That was on purpose,” Nathan Dean said flatly.

“Huh?”

“We both know Halliday’s a sure shot, Red. If he wanted to hit us, he’d do it.”

“I’ll admit he’s fair to middlin’,” Barrett grumbled.

“He could have killed Luden Finn if he’d wanted to,” Dean pointed out. “I’ve been thinkin’ about that jasper, Red. More and more, it’s beginnin’ to look like he was tellin’ us the truth all along. All the time he’s been here, he’s only fought back to defend himself.”

“Mr. Dean,” Barrett said, and it was clear from the tightness in his voice that he was struggling to control his emotions. “Halliday’s on their side. He’s down there in that house, protectin’ that crazy Heller and his whore of a sister.”

“Donna might be a difficult woman,” Dean snapped, “but you have no right to call her a whore.”

“Well, put it this way, Mr. Dean,” Barrett grinned. “She ain’t all that particular about the company she keeps. If you could say she’s been true to any man, it’d be Sam Rushton. That ole outlaw’s been comin’ and goin’ from that little house down there for years, whenever he figured the law wasn’t watchin’ too close. I figured everybody knew that ...”

Dean gaped at him.

“Are you sure about that?”

“Yeah. I seen him myself, plenty of times, just settin’ on the porch with a gun in his lap.”

“Then why the hell didn’t you say so?” Dean rasped. “That man’s been on the Wanted list for years—he’s wanted for murder.”

Barrett shrugged and said, “I figured it weren’t none of my business. Rushton never did me any harm.”

“Dammit, Red ...” Dean said, but then his voice trailed off into silence.

Although it was still as dark as ever, his men were assembling after the long night and beginning to saddle their horses. Suddenly, he felt disappointed and dog-tired himself.

He had expected trouble to come his way when the government opened the country south of Millerston to settlement. That was why he hired Ben Wright and Red Barrett. They had seemed to do everything Dean expected of them, but now he had to admit that they had failed to sort out the Heller problem and had also taken care to keep a safe distance from Sam Rushton.

Dean walked slowly into the trees.

He owned all the country he could see, including the section where he had allowed the Heller family to remain. For the first time, the land gave him little pleasure.

Dean went slowly to the top of the ridge and gazed unhappily in every direction.

He had liked the look of Halliday from the beginning. There was a man who walked straight and never took a backward step, the kind of man Dean wished he had on his side.

The rancher felt a little sorry about what was to come. When he rode on the Heller place, he would be riding against Halliday.

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