Soft Metal by Max Brand

Author:Max Brand [Brand, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Western
Publisher: Roy Glashan's Library
Published: 2013-05-18T23:00:00+00:00

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VII. — A COCK-AND-BULL STORY

They talked until the dawn began in the gray east. And by that time the younger man had agreed to do what the elder advised, and that was to put his shame in his pocket and stay away from home for a few days.

“Because, inside of that time,” Givain assured him, “Al will have forgotten all about you. He’ll have another trouble in his mind and be off across the mountains in one direction or another. You can depend on that. I’ve known the brute and the brute’s mind for a long time.”

He could hardly believe his ears when young Mundy agreed. He would not make a pretense about it, however, he said. He would go over to the mountains and write home that he would be gone for three days, simply because he wanted to dodge Richards. If, at the end of that time, Richards was still in the town, he would face him on his return. It was rather a shorter space than the gambler had hoped for, but he had to content himself with what he had gained without pushing the point.

“But will you tell me,” asked young Mundy, “what makes you do all of this on account of me?”

“Because when I heard of your meeting that was to be with Richards, I decided that something had to be done about it. I knew how it would turn out… with another grave in the town cemetery and another notch in Al’s gun butt. Did you ever see that gun butt?”

“No,” answered Bob Mundy.

“It looks like the mouth of an old dog, full of short teeth.”

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