Home By Nightfall
“I didn’t expect anyone to shoot back at us.” Bert Bauer picked the seat of his pants from between his buttocks and peered over the brush he and Rush were hiding behind. The wind still howled like a crone from hell and bit through his jacket. Worse, the sky was lowering again.Rush shook his head. “If that shot was meant for us, a blind man was holding the gun. It hit the wagon wheel. He might have done us a favor.”“I think it’s gonna snow, too, and we can’t light a fire in here. Someone will see... it and half the county will be looking for us. We don’t even have horses!”“Shut up, Bauer, and let me think,” Rush snapped.After shooting Grenfell, they’d slipped off into denser cover with a canopy of tree branches that kept most of the snow from hitting the forest floor. But they’d left tracks in the thin white crust that were like arrows pointing out their escape route. Suddenly the plan that had seemed so brilliantly simple turned out to be amazingly stupid.“Anyway, more snow will help cover our tracks.”MoreLess
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