A Wanted Man
“Now, on a bright Friday morning, he was steaming southwest, toward Flagstaff, with a trail of passenger and freight cars rattling along the track behind him.The passenger cars were emptier than they should have been—word of the holdup had already spread, and folks were afraid to travel. Fewer passengers meant less revenue, a condition soon to be reflected in Autry’s bank balances.And that would not do.He meant to meet with the Rangers and as many other law enforcement officials as he could corr...al, which was plenty, given the extent of his influence, political and otherwise, and demand immediate action. By God, this was America, and a man had a right to run a railroad without being molested by a pack of no-account hoodlums and ne’er-do-wells.No one treated Autry Whitman like this.No one save Lark McCullough.Bile seared the back of Autry’s throat, sour and scalding. He shifted uncomfortably in his seat and glowered out the window at a snowy landscape. He’d have an accounting from her, some fine day in the near future, and it would be a memorable one, too.Especially for her.Why, he’d found her in a San Francisco show house, cavorting for a lot of seamy strangers in a scanty getup, and he’d been stricken at the sight of her—not with love, Autry didn’t believe in such fatuous sentiments as that—but with the desperate need to possess her.MoreLess
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