Gone to Texas
“But Joshua kept his wits about him. Joshua—the calm and rational one, thinking on his feet, quick to act, so quick that before Rebecca knew what was happening he had grabbed Prissy. Prissy was the nearest. He locked an arm around her throat and put his own pistol to her head.
"Please drop it, ma'am," he said in the same tone of voice he would have used to ask her to pass the bread.
How ludicrous, thought Rebecca, for him to be so well-mannered at a moment like this. Please and ma'am! The whole ...scene struck her as so unreal that she wondered if she was dreaming.
"Doan you do it, Miss 'Becca," said Prissy. "You go ahead and shoot, and doan you fret none about me." "Don't make me shoot her," said Joshua.
Rebecca threw the pistol onto the table.
With a growl Morgan bolted from the room. Joshua shoved Prissy away, grabbed the horse pistol from the table, and collected his own rifle, before following his brother.
Rebecca couldn't move. She was frozen in place by the horror of what she had done.MoreLess
"Please drop it, ma'am," he said in the same tone of voice he would have used to ask her to pass the bread.
How ludicrous, thought Rebecca, for him to be so well-mannered at a moment like this. Please and ma'am! The whole ...scene struck her as so unreal that she wondered if she was dreaming.
"Doan you do it, Miss 'Becca," said Prissy. "You go ahead and shoot, and doan you fret none about me." "Don't make me shoot her," said Joshua.
Rebecca threw the pistol onto the table.
With a growl Morgan bolted from the room. Joshua shoved Prissy away, grabbed the horse pistol from the table, and collected his own rifle, before following his brother.
Rebecca couldn't move. She was frozen in place by the horror of what she had done.MoreLess
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