Shadow of the Hangman by J. A. Johnstone

Author:J. A. Johnstone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2014-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

After Wentworth and his crestfallen bunch rode out, Samuel said to his father, “Suppose he’d moved out of the circle?”

Before the colonel could answer, Ironside said, “Then I would’ve shot him in the head and scattered his brains.”

Samuel smiled. “Luther, sometimes you sound just like my brother Jacob.”

“I should,” Ironside said. “I taught that boy all he knows.”

Chapter Twenty-six

“They’re leaving,” Lum said. “Riding away.”

“Good,” Dora DeClare said. “We don’t want anyone else doing our job for us.”

“Do you see the woman?” Shade Shannon said. “I want to see the woman.”

“She’s inside,” Dora said. She smiled the smile that so often transformed her beautiful face into the evil caricature of a witch. “You’ll see a lot of her soon enough.”

Shannon giggled and Lum said, “Share and share alike, remember.”

“Even you two won’t be able to wear out what she’s got,” Dora said. Her hand flew to her suddenly hot cheek. “Oh, how unladylike,” she said. “I can’t believe I said such a thing.”

“You should know about wearing it out, eh, Dora?” Lum leered.

And the woman blushed prettily again and fluttered her long lashes.

Dora, Lum, and Shannon lay on the edge of Glorieta Mesa, hidden by rocks and a few wind-twisted junipers. Joshua had been tied to his horse for the journey from El Cerrito. But now he sat in a small meadow a mile west of the Pecos with Luke Caldwell and waited while the others spied on Dromore.

Dora DeClare, dressed for the trail, wore a man’s hat, a white, tight-fitted shirt, and a split canvas riding skirt. A pair of English-made riding boots encased her lovely legs.

“I think we’ve seen enough,” she said. “Josh will be pining for me.”

Lum rolled on one elbow and said, “How do we play it, Dora? I counted eleven men down there who couldn’t get inside Dromore.”

“Leave that to me,” the woman said. “I’ll find a way.”

“When we get Lorena O’Brien,” Shannon said, “how long do we play with her?”

“For as long as it takes, Shade. I want her to be a raving lunatic after you and Lum are finished with her.”

“Caldwell might want a taste,” Lum said.

Dora smiled. “What’s the old saying? Ah, yes, of course, ‘the more the merrier.’”

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