Waco's Badge by J. T. Edson

Author:J. T. Edson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Western Stories, Westerns, Fiction, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780060784188
Publisher: HarperTorch
Published: 1982-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

considerations, he had known he would have any

losses he incurred returned; but would be allowed to

keep his winnings.

After supper, the Summer Complaints and their

guest had begun to play poker. At first, the stakes had

been money. However, they had soon begun to wager

the clothing they were wearing. This, as Martin had

been aware when agreeing to join the game, was a

prelude to a sexual orgy in which the girls gave them-

selves to the men with casual abandon and eagerness.

Unfortunately for the anticipation experienced by

Martin as everybody began to divest garments, the

latter stage had not been reached when the intrusion

occurred!

“Nobody moves!” snarled the man with the Store-

keeper Peacemaker, his voice harsh and suggestive of

a citizen of Brooklyn in its timber. “The first to dies

slow and painful!”

It said much for the composure of Jedroe Franks

that he retained sufficient presence of mind, despite

being startled by the sight of five men and two

women around the table, none wearing more than

some form of underclothing, to do as had been

arranged.

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207

Guessing from the comments, which had come as

such a surprise, that no harm was intended to him,

the Easterner had greeted Waco and Doc Leroy with

pleasure. Then he had learned why they were present.

The blond had said that, being acquainted with Belle

Starr, he knew it was not her who had led the hold up

of the stagecoach. Wanting to do a favor for a friend,

like Franks, he and Doc were seeking to bring the

real culprits to justice. It had become apparent that

they had drawn similar conclusions to those of the

Easterner from what they had heard in Marana.

However, they had adopted different means to put

their suppositions to the test.

“We allus do things the hard way,” Doc had de-

clared. “Which being, we concluded to follow the

gang’s tracks to where they was headed.”

“It wasn’t easy, even for a feller trained by the Ys-

abel Kid,” Waco had supplemented. “Fact being, for

‘a bunch of useless, no-account, Eastern remittance

yahoos ’n’ their women, who’re no better’n they

should be,’ they’d done real good at hiding where

they was headed.”

“You talked to the owner of the livery barn?”

Franks had guessed, remembering the description he

had been given of the Summer Complaints.

“Nope,” the blond had answered. “But you did

while we was ’tending to our hosses inside—!”

“I don’t go ’round listening to folks when they’re talk-

ing private,” the pallid Texan has asserted. “But there’s

some around who don’t have my good manners.”

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“Anyways,” Waco had continued, as if the inter-

ruption had not been made. “When I saw how hard

it was going to be keeping after ’em, which some

folks’s’ve good manners had found it all along, we

concluded to come on over to the spread and say,

‘Howdy, you-all’ to the Summer Complaints.”

“Only we come on two hosses hid away like some-

body didn’t want them seen from the trail,” Doc had

drawled. “And, recognizing that crowbait from the

hold up, I figured it was you who’d brought them and

we might as well drop by to give you the carpetbag of

yours they carried off. The money’s gone, natural’,

but there’s some other gear in it.”

“Thank you,” Franks had said, with genuine grat-

itude.

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