The Vengeance Seeker 4 by Will C. Knott

Author:Will C. Knott
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Piccadilly

“Hold it right there, mister,” Wolf said.

Wolf saw the figure in front of him turn quickly to face him. In the dim light Wolf saw also the dull glint of the man’s six-gun a moment before it spat fire. Flinging himself to one side, Wolf returned the fire, the almost simultaneous roar of the two guns filling the place with a deafening blast. But as the intruder’s bullet thudded into the log wall behind him, Wolf’s slug appeared to have struck home. The fellow crashed backward to the hard-packed dirt floor. Even on the floor, however, the fellow was game. He fired up at Wolf again, the flame from his six-gun lancing up from the floor. Wolf felt the bullet burn past his cheek, aimed quickly at the flash and fired again.

This time he brought a cry of pain from the intruder, and to Wolf’s surprise the man scrambled to his feet and lurched back out through the doorway, taking the blanket with him. Wolf stepped to the doorway and saw the fellow fall to the ground just before the corral, then stagger to his feet once again and carry himself on for a few more yards before collapsing in the shadows of the pines on the other side of the corral.

Juanita was at his side by this time. “Are you all right, Wolf?”

“I’m fine,” Wolf said. “Stay here. He’s down, but he may still be dangerous.”

He left the shack, ducked low and circled toward the spot beyond the corral where he had seen the man go down. When he came upon the still body from behind, he found the man facing back toward the line shack, his six-gun in his hand, ready.

There was no moon, but Wolf could see well enough to take the Colt from the fellow’s hand and then kneel beside him. The man groaned as Wolf felt his chest. He pulled away a warm, bloodied hand.

“Juanita!” he called. “Give me a hand!” Between the two of them they were able to carry the man into the line shack and place him down on Wolf’s cot. A dirty remnant of a candle Juanita had found earlier gave them what little light they needed. In its guttering light the two wounds in the man’s chest were brutally apparent. One of the bullets had struck the man high in the chest, shattering the shoulder; but it was the second bullet, lower in the chest and from which a steady stream of rich dark blood was pulsing, that would prove to be the fatal one, even as Juanita labored to stem the flow.

Wolf felt an ache as he saw how young the fellow was. He had not had much of a chance to notice this member of Reno’s gang when he had been brought to their camp at the pass. But now in this dim light he found himself studying the youthful lines of the man’s face and thinking only of the waste it represented. His hair was reddish and there were a few light freckles over his nose and cheeks.

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