“Thus and consequently, it was easy for Medicine Ed to be watchful. He went in his tack room and put his eye up on that chink and taken a deep look at them, the funny-looking couple from Charles Town, reefer-smoking friends of Zeno, Tommy Hansel and the frizzly hair girl, and their big red horse. It was a peculiar thing: how Zeno’s horse and this young fool’s showed up today like might-could-be twin brothers, common enough horses but like seeing double, both maidens, both geldings, fat, red, wit...h nary a mark on them, not even a white sock, and both the color of store-bought whiskey. As for Tommy Hansel, what was the story on that young fellow? It had Medicine Ed woolgathered, trying to fit him in where he belonged. He was a racetracker in his moves, but he wasn’t a racetracker in his face. He had a Jordan John look about him which gave Medicine Ed the creeper crawlers—wide forehead, black curly beard, high color for a white man, and burning eyes—big smoking charcoal eyes. This business will run men crazy, Zeno always say.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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