El Paso: a Novel
“Both had nasty cuts and contusions on their heads.Bomba appeared worse off. It took four of Gonzales’s men to carry him into the house, where Gonzales put him on a bed and gave him a bottle of tequila, which Bomba declined. Then Gonzales inexpertly probed for the bullet in Bomba’s shoulder. After a while he gave up. He walked out to the Packard and examined the dashboard, in which he found a big hole through the speedometer. It occurred to him that he could have spared Bomba a lot of torment if... he had realized from the start that since there were holes in both the front and back of the shoulder, the bullet had obviously exited.He returned to the house and examined Bomba again. The huge man’s eyes were impassive; Gonzales couldn’t understand why he didn’t cry out. There wasn’t too much bleeding, he noted, so at least an artery hadn’t been cut. And when he moved the shoulder he couldn’t feel any evidence of broken bone, either. Maybe it was a clean through-and-through. In any case, Gonzales swabbed the flesh with iodine and dressed it with bandages and gauze.Xenia was beside herself when she was told about the children; a horror beyond nightmares.MoreLess
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