Louis L'Amour by The Warrior's Path

Author:The Warrior's Path
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Kidnapping, Slave Trade, Brothers, Western Stories, Pequot Indians, Westerns, Fiction, Sackett Family (Fictitious Characters), Historical Fiction, Indian Captivities, Domestic Fiction, Frontier and Pioneer Life
ISBN: 9780553276909
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1980-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter XIII

He held aside the curtain into an inner room, and I stepped through. There was also a door, I noticed, that was hidden by the curtain. That door had remained open, and now he paused beside it. “I have much to do, and you will have much to discuss. Kin Ring Sackett, Madam Adele Legare.”

He stepped out and closed the door behind him. She was not beautiful except for her eyes, which were. She was a striking young woman with a voluptuous figure. Her hair was blonde, shading toward red, and her eyes blue.

“Kin Ring Sackett. It is an unusual name. You are from Carolina.”

“From the mountains, madam. You must excuse me. I fear I have few of the social graces.”

“You know about me, so I will waste no time. Besides, we have no time. Max Bauer is in town, and he is at work, and that means he will have made arrangements to have you killed.”

“You evidently know the man.”

“I do. And do not take him lightly. You may be sure he has no intention of letting you get out of Port Royal alive unless he does what he did to a man who tried to help me.”

“What did he do?”

“He was a good man. Oh, I suspect he had been bad enough in his way, but he was good to me and tried to help me.”

She paused. “Max Bauer put out his eyes and cut out his tongue.”

I was shocked, and she saw it. She shrugged. “Worse things can happen here, and in England as well. I need not tell you that, but he was a good man.”

“What happened to him?”

“He lives here. He has a cottage on a hill where there is a view, and he weaves baskets, rugs. They are for sale. I have seen to it that he is cared for, but he is a proud man and chooses to earn his own way.”

She turned suddenly back to me. “You look to be a strong man. Could you kill Max Bauer?”

“You mistake me, madam. I do not plan to kill him, only to put a stop to this business. I want evidence that will show Pittingel for what he is.”

“Do you think that will stop them? They will simply move to some other place. Oh, it would hurt Pittingel! He likes being an important man! He likes putting on airs and strutting about! As for the name, even that doesn’t belong to him. I’ve not been able to discover just what his name was. I know the one he had before this, but I think he borrowed that one, also.

“That is not important. The man is evil, and Max Bauer is as well. I want them destroyed.”

“If I could return to Cape Ann with a sworn statement—?”

“Out of the question. For myself I do not care; for my husband I care very much. He has his position and his pride. No one here knows where I came from. I do not want them to know.

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