The War Heist by Ralph Dennis

Author:Ralph Dennis [Dennis, Ralph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781732065697
Publisher: Brash Books
Published: 2019-02-28T22:00:00+00:00

Gunny Townsend wasn’t sure exactly when the major and the captain would arrive at the Gilway railway station. He and Vic Franks, relieved from time to time by Richard Betts; drove all night. At dawn they stopped for breakfast. The Mack Bulldogs could get out and run, a lumbering, awkward, ground-eating trot. Vic kept his ears on the engines, listening to them talk, and what he heard pleased him. Lord, they are like coon dogs that have been locked up all summer and now it is fall, and they can smell the leaves burning, and they know they will run off the summer fat as soon as they smell that first coon.

Stopping only for fuel and a sandwich or a soft drink, they continued the eastward run. They reached Gilway in the early evening, near dark, and drove down the two blocks of main street and parked on a side street.

Betts and Franks remained with the trucks. Gunny walked around town. It wasn’t more than five minutes in any direction. Gunny found a deserted barn on the edge of town, off to the northwest, and he asked around until he found the owner. The house he got sent to was diagonally across the street from the barn. A dour, ruddy-faced man named MacGregor gave Gunny his keen Scots look and said that he might rent Gunny the barn for the night for ten dollars American. He’d furnish a lamp, but they couldn’t smoke or cook in the barn.

Gunny agreed. He returned with the trucks ten minutes later, and MacGregor was waiting in front of the locked doors. MacGregor kept them waiting while he unlocked the padlock and spread the high doors. He stood aside and watched the trucks pull inside and park. Then MacGregor held out the padlock key, and Gunny passed the ten-dollar bill to him.

MacGregor was curious about the trucks. He loafed outside the barn, examining the ten-dollar bill, until Gunny explained that they were over the border on a camping trip. The trucks carried equipment their bosses would need in the wilds. In fact, he checked his watch, the train bringing them ought to be arriving any time.

“A considerable amount of camping equipment it would seem to me,” MacGregor said.

“Rich people can’t do without their comforts,” Gunny said. “Why, they’ve even got a portable bathtub in there.”

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