The Second Western Novel MEGAPACK ™: 4 Great Western Novels by Matt Rand & Burt Arthur & Giles A. Lutz & A. Scott Leslie

Author:Matt Rand & Burt Arthur & Giles A. Lutz & A. Scott Leslie [Rand, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: gunslinger, indian, western, Texas, cowboy
ISBN: 9781479406197
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

IT HAPPENED IN A TOWN CALLED LAWLESS, By Matt Rand

Copyright © 1941 by Columbia Publications, Inc.

CHAPTER I

Out of a pale blue sky unflecked by the tiniest cloud, the sun, a disc of polished brass, blazed down, and haps for the fiftieth time the red-faced, grizzled driver of the stage-coach cursed it.

“If hell’s any hotter’n this, damn me if I don’t go an’ get religion,” he said to the express messenger who sat on the box beside him.

They were descending a narrow, winding defile, the weather-scarred, rock walls of which were bare save for scattered clumps of brush and cactus clinging precariously where an earth-filled crevice afforded root-hold, and the four wicked-eyed mules comprising the team required careful handling if the lumbering vehicle were to reach the end of the decline as a whole. None knew this better than Bill Eames, the driver; and though he talked, hands and eyes were concentrated on his job. Lurching, swaying, jolting over a rough road the coach went on, and presently, sweeping round a bend, the finish of the gully came in view. Eames eased his drag on the reins a little and gave a grunt of relief.

“Always glad when I’m through Devil’s Dip,” he remarked. “Dunno why, but I got a feelin’ that if anythin’ does happen, it’ll be here.”

“Dandy place for a hold-up,” said the messenger, who was making the trip for the first time.

“You said it,” agreed the driver. “But we ain’t never—”

“Stick ’em up, pronto,” came the curt command.

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