Valley of the Lesser Evil by Carl Dane

Author:Carl Dane [Dane, Carl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: carl dane, cowboys, hawke and carmody, westerns, western books, Fiction_ Westerns, amazon
Publisher: Raging Bull Publishing
Published: 2018-03-26T04:30:00+00:00

Chapter 21

It was a moonlit night, and following our own trail back where we’d come wasn’t so hard for Carmody. I couldn’t have done it, but he could not only read tracks but seemed to have total recall of every twist and turn we’d made earlier.

“You spend enough time in the wild,” Carmody whispered to me, “you get in the habit of noticing things. Your life can depend on backtracking to where you saw a water hole, or some food to forage. That’s how my mind works.”

I nodded.

“Now your mind,” Carmody continued, “has been trained to work in a different way. I’ll wager you remember very little of these here twists and turns and undergrowth that gets trampled and muddy parts that leave tracks and such.”

“Very little,” I agreed.

“But do you remember spots where we could find a good nest to shoot from, or spots where we could hide up high and have a clear shot at anyone who followed?”

“Five, with one coming up over the next rise. But I’m not sure if that gives us any clear advantage considering what we’re trying to do.”

“You never know,” Carmody said. “Lots of things I don’t know. Lots of things you don’t know. But lots of stuff we do know that could be useful. Together, though, we add up to a very crazy and dangerous team, I’ll say that.”

I was going to reply but Carmody held up a hand and then stabbed his index finger twice into the gloom ahead. He’s seen something that I could not yet make out.

Carmody pulled his mount alongside mine and leaned close, cupping his hands to my ear as he whispered. “Man standing, leaning on a rifle, maybe a quarter mile ahead up on that small plateau. A sentry.”

I nodded and dismounted and told Carmody to wait while I did my business.

We had just crossed back into my territory.

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