On the Run With Bonnie & Clyde by John Gilmore

Author:John Gilmore [Gilmore, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-07-07T05:00:00+00:00

Twenty-One

Ray Hamilton was back behind bars, picked up on a bank job with another partner the law was hunting. The stickup scored $3,000, but Ray wouldn’t be blowing the money so quickly since he’d been transferred to Hillsboro to be tried on first-degree charges for the murder of old man Bucher.

“Ray didn’t do the shootin’,” Bonnie told W.D. “Someone else pulled the trigger, and told Clyde it was an accident. Ray says he wasn’t in Texas when it happened, but the laws’re gonna try him and fry him. That is, unless Clyde can get him busted out. That’s why he had Ray’s sis Lilly take that old radio to Ray, ’cause there’s two hacksaw blades behind the tubes.”

W.D. said, “Ray’s gonna saw his way out of jail?”

“He’s done it before,” Clyde said from the front seat as the car bumped over Eagle Ford. “He knows what he’s doin’, least he thinks he does. Problem’s he’s bank happy. You can’t be fuckin’ happy when you’re stickin’ up a bank.”

“We don’t know if Lilly got the radio to him,” Bonnie told W.D. “That’s why we’re goin’ to Ray’s sister Maggie’s.”

“Yeah,” W.D. said. “I know her. Everyone knows Lilly. They all know the McBrides, but these laws’re lookin’ for Bud, and you aren’t worryin’ bein’ seen around here?”

“They’re lookin’ for you, too,” Clyde said. “Only they don’t have a name stuck on you yet, so aren’t you worryin’? They haven’t got a name but they’ve got a face. They get you, they’ll put you in Ray’s lap and start pullin’ that switch.”

“I’m not worryin’ about any switch,” W.D. said. “Long as I’m bein’ with you and Sis, I’m not gonna be worryin’ ’cause you got some juju that gets you goin’ past ’em while they’re lookin’ straight at you. You both got it, too. Sis, it’s like you’re holy or somethin’, castin’ spells so nobody’s seein’ you. Makes me feel like my bein’ with you’s like nobody’s gonna see me either. That’s why I’m not wastin’ time thinkin’ about gettin’ stuck sittin’ with Ray when they’re pullin’ a switch…” Bonnie laughed, but then W.D. said, “It’s had me worryin’ over shootin’ that fella jumpin’ on the car, but I swear I figured he was hurtin’ Clyde and set to get us crashed in that car.”

“Sit back,” Clyde said. “Stop breathin’ on my neck. I can hear you from where I’m sittin’.”

The car cruised slowly along Eagle Ford, passing the small Hamilton house. Clyde parked on the opposite side of the road. Leaving the engine running, he tucked the .45 into his belt, buttoned his coat. “I’m goin’ over there,” he said, opening the door.

“You want me to go with you?” W.D. asked.

“No, I don’t want you goin’ with me. Stay put and shut up. If somethin’ starts happenin’ you get alert.” Bonnie slid over to sit behind the steering wheel as Clyde walked across the road.

Up on the porch, he stood at the front door for a couple minutes, several minutes, talking through the screen.

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