McClain by Will Keen

Author:Will Keen [Keen, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

By McClain’s reckoning it took them another hour to hit the trail, never mind put the last of Red Creek’s ramshackle dwellings behind them. Carter had been hoping for the best but planning for the worst. So from the metal locker in his office they took time to choose weapons: a Winchester for Carter, an old Henry for McClain, shells for both weapons and more shells for their six-guns, which were both of the same calibre.

Carter had then climbed the steps and hammered on the door of the general store down the hill, got a grumbling bewhiskered storekeeper named Will Jennings out of his bed and packed their saddlebags with food, coffee, full water canteens, and – at McClain’s suggestion – rolled bandages, creams and unguents.

‘An unguent being. . . ?’ Carter had asked quizzically.

‘Something my wife mentioned that might be needed in battle,’ McClain said, and grinned crookedly to hide his sadness.

Their horses were fed and watered. It occurred to McClain that he and Carter should also have filled their bellies before setting out, but when the thought came to him the raw-boned marshal was rattling away a hundred yards down the sloping main street, pushing his horse towards the nearest stand of trees at the first bend in the trail.

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