The Trailsman #388 by Jon Sharpe
Author:Jon Sharpe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group, USA
Published: 2014-02-03T16:00:00+00:00
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When Fargo emerged from the building, he found a nervous Carrie Stanton and Abigail Bartlett waiting nearby.
“My stars and garters!” Carrie said. “It sounded like somebody slaughtered a hog in there! Are you all right, Skye?”
“He got a few good licks in on me,” Fargo said. “Seems like my head has taken a helluva beating in the last couple days.”
“Well, you didn’t kill him,” Abigail said. “I can hear him groaning.”
“I’m hoping that little visit brought him to Jesus,” Fargo said. “At least, as far as the Phalanx is concerned. He’s wearing the no-good label, and if he doesn’t clear out like I told him to, I advise you folks to close ranks against him. All this peace and love may work back in Massachusetts, but it won’t go on the frontier. Haven’t you figured out by now that this Danny Dexter fellow he replaced didn’t run off?”
“I have,” Carrie said. “Parker murdered Danny.”
Fargo nodded. “You’ve got a nice farming operation going here. I suggest you folks get shut of the burlap and the spiritual advisors, elect some good, practical leaders, and continue to thrive. Then you two won’t have to run away.”
“We wish you’d stay,” Abigail said. “At least for a time. You’d be a fine leader.”
Fargo chuckled. “Sorry. This placid, punkin-butter existence isn’t for me. If I stay too long in one place I get holed-up fever.” Fargo’s eyes swept appreciatively over both beauties. “Not that there aren’t certain temptations.”
“Where are you going now, Skye?” Carrie asked as Fargo tightened the girth on his saddle.
“Into El Paso to see a man about a river.”
The two women exchanged puzzled glances. “Whatever does that mean?” Abigail asked.
For a few moments Fargo gazed past the irrigated fields, past the muddy brown meanders of the Rio Grande, and focused again on those low ridges on the Mexican side. He had no evidence whatsoever that Stanley Winslowe intended to grab them just as he had the ones a few miles upstream.
But if not, why was his blast team still roosting in El Paso—along with the rainmaker Valdez was trying to hunt down? Perhaps to kill the Trailsman, but Fargo had a gut hunch it had to be more than that. If Fargo’s hunch was right, a second blast would destroy the irrigation system that made possible this farmland in the middle of parched desert. It could even destroy many of the farmers themselves.
“I don’t rightly know what I mean,” he admitted. “But I’m working at finding out, and when I do I’ll enlighten you.”
“Are you too busy,” Abigail said coquettishly, “to stay around just a little bit longer? Carrie showed you the cornfield. Now it’s my turn.”
Fargo grinned. “Well, I did just suggest that you get shut of the burlap, didn’t I?”
Abigail took his hand and led him toward the corn, Fargo leading the Ovaro.
“Have fun, Abby,” Carrie called out behind them. “I certainly did.”
“Skye,” Abigail said, her voice rising an octave in her gathering excitement, “Carrie told me about the size on you.
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