Midnight Rider (Ralph Cotton Western Series)
“He pulled himself hand over hand from the blood and up the side of a large rock standing beside the trail—the rock he had landed against headfirst when he fell from the runaway wagon. His huge head pounded like a bass drum.
Dang.… He batted his eyes and cleared them enough to look down the front of himself. Dirt and dark blood had caked thick over the bullet holes in his chest, his shoulders, his leg. The thick black paste had slowed his loss of blood almost to a stop. He considered the fact th...at he was still alive in amazement, and scratched his bloody, swollen head.
Where’s Pres…? he asked himself dreamily. Where’s Rock…?
Ahead of him where the wagon had gone off the trail, he heard the sounds of Grolin, Spiller and Penta gathering gold ingots on the rocky hillside. Broken crates and pieces of busted wagon frame lay everywhere. At the edge of the trail above them, Bobby Kane leaned back against a rock, still looking dazed and half conscious from the hard backhanded slap the Giant had planted on the side of his head.MoreLess
Dang.… He batted his eyes and cleared them enough to look down the front of himself. Dirt and dark blood had caked thick over the bullet holes in his chest, his shoulders, his leg. The thick black paste had slowed his loss of blood almost to a stop. He considered the fact th...at he was still alive in amazement, and scratched his bloody, swollen head.
Where’s Pres…? he asked himself dreamily. Where’s Rock…?
Ahead of him where the wagon had gone off the trail, he heard the sounds of Grolin, Spiller and Penta gathering gold ingots on the rocky hillside. Broken crates and pieces of busted wagon frame lay everywhere. At the edge of the trail above them, Bobby Kane leaned back against a rock, still looking dazed and half conscious from the hard backhanded slap the Giant had planted on the side of his head.MoreLess
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Guest 2 years ago
This is the first obvious Compton error I've seen do far. It's a pretty poor reason to blow the safe with dynamite. w=Whether blown or cracked another way, it puts the authorities on warning that there is a gang after those safes, and they'll only increase their guard over the one with the gold.I'm surprised. And the "bad men" are portrayed far too much as quarrelsome and very stupid. It was obvious from before Rock revealed himself as a government man that he was one. (or Pinkerton)
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