Perdita Durango by Barry Gifford

Author:Barry Gifford [Gifford, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novela, Aventuras, Policial, Romántico
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 1991-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

LIVES OF THE SAINTS

Romeo turned up the radio. Ernest Tubb was singing “When a Soldier Knocks and Finds Nobody Home.”

“This is one of my daddy’s favorites,” said Duane. “It’s real sad. He used to sing it to us when my brother Herschel Roy and I were small. It and Jimmie Rodgers tunes like ‘Why Should I Be Lonely’ and ‘Somewhere Down Below the Dixon Line.’ ”

Romeo kept the truck headed west at a safe speed.

“One I always enjoyed was ‘My Darlin’ Clementine,’ ” Romeo said. “I seen that old movie, too, where the sheriff, Wyatt Earp, says, ‘Sure is a hard town for a fella to have a quiet game of poker in,’ after Doc Holliday runs off a cheater in the Tombstone saloon. The best line, though, is from Walter Brennan, who plays Pa Clanton, father of the meanest boys in the territory. After Earp busts up the sons’ tormentin’ of a travelin’ actor, Brennan comes in and horsewhips ’em, then says, ‘When you pull a gun, kill a man.’ That’s beautiful, Duane.

“Also, when Saint Henry Fonda, who’s Wyatt Earp, walks out of the hotel into pourin’ rain at three in the mornin’ on the night his youngest brother’s been killed, he walks alone away from the camera along the plank-covered street, and everything’s gray and black streaks, like real life.”

Duane was silent, watching the shadows jump past as the refrigerated truck, carrying two thousand-plus pounds of female detritus, stuck East Texas in its back pocket.

“Man, I remember when I was in Tampa, Florida,” said Romeo, “seventeen years old, at my grandmother’s house, and I saw the movie Vera Cruz on television. It changed my life, the way Saint Burt Lancaster looked and talked. He had about 108 giant gleaming teeth, and wore a dusty black outfit and black drawstring hat, a black leather wristband and a silver-studded black gunbelt with a pearl-handled revolver strapped to his right thigh. You ever see that one, Duane?”

Duane shook his head no and stared out the window. The desert at night looked like a tigerskin rug.

“Saint Burt is an outlaw,” Romeo continued, “operating in Maximilian’s Mexico, who hooks up with Saint Gary Cooper, playing a former Confederate colonel from Louisiana who has no desire to live under Yankee rule. Saint Coop’s idea is to score enough loot to refinance the Rebel cause. Saint Burt is the greatest gunslinger alive. He can shoot equally well with either hand, and even backhanded! He and Saint Coop and their gang join up with Maximilian rather than Juarez because the Emperor pays better. They agree to help escort a French countess and her carriage to Vera Cruz. The trick, of course, is that a load of gold is hidden in the carriage, and everybody wants it. One of Juarez’s generals, Ramirez, pulls a superb stunt when he surrounds Saint Burt and his men on the walls of a town square. Burt rotates his lion’s head as dozen after dozen of Ramirez’s peasant army appear, and when

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