The Judas Field by Bahr Howard;

Author:Bahr, Howard;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2017-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

It was full dark when Cass flopped the two dead rabbits down by Captain Byron Sullivan’s fire, where the company stew was in progress. Into this stew went everything the boys could gather at foraging, so it was various of content and odor. “That all you got?” asked the officer.

“We left the pies and sweetmeats down in camp,” said Cass.

First Sergeant Williams began to clean a rabbit. “How’re you and that infant making out?” he asked.

“His name is Lucian,” said Cass, then told about the incident at the farmstead. The captain leaned back on his heels and sighed. “Well, that was a hard lesson for a boy,” he said.

“You know any easy ones?” said Cass.

“I still hope to discover one,” said the captain.

Cass took a deep breath. “Well, I’ll just tell you now and get it done,” he said. “I am sending the rifle they give him back to the quartermaster. I won’t have the lad bearing arms.”

Williams looked up from his skinning. “You won’t—well, goddamn—”

“Now, don’t fuck with me, Bill,” said Cass. He turned to the captain. “Colonel Sansing give him to me to raise, and I mean to do it as I see fit. I—he is—goddammit, Cap’n.”

The captain held up his hands. “All right. Well put him to cooking, bearing litters, and the like. Will that satisfy you?”

“Yes,” said Cass. “Yes, sir.”

The first sergeant put his rabbit down and regarded Cass for a moment. He said, “You put me in mind of a fellow I knew in Texas, used to hunt rattlesnakes for sport.”

“Yeah?” said Cass. “What happened to him? He get bit?”

“No,” said Williams, “he just got to looking like he’d seen too many of ’em.”

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