Ride the Dark Trail (1972)
“Nor in Pennywell.
She had got off two shots. I saw her loading up again afterwards. She was pale as a ghost when it was over, but she was thumbing two cartridges back into her pistol, and she was ready.
Man, those were women!
Chapter 12 There was a meanness in me. We'd come off lucky. Em had been burned by one bullet, but that was the only injury to any of us.
We'd lost some grass, but spring rains and the winter snows would bring that back. The burning left us secure from that side at leas...t, for now there was nothing left to burn.
They'd busted through the front window. They'd tried to break down the door, but it just didn't bust that easy. They'd pried off one of the shutters and had busted through the window to get in. That was what allowed us time to get down there.
But it was not in me to sit by, so I went right outside, and saying nothing to anybody I hit the road for town. I pulled up in the shadow of a barn, saw their horses at the hitch rail of the hotel-saloon, and I walked across the street and up the steps.MoreLess
She had got off two shots. I saw her loading up again afterwards. She was pale as a ghost when it was over, but she was thumbing two cartridges back into her pistol, and she was ready.
Man, those were women!
Chapter 12 There was a meanness in me. We'd come off lucky. Em had been burned by one bullet, but that was the only injury to any of us.
We'd lost some grass, but spring rains and the winter snows would bring that back. The burning left us secure from that side at leas...t, for now there was nothing left to burn.
They'd busted through the front window. They'd tried to break down the door, but it just didn't bust that easy. They'd pried off one of the shutters and had busted through the window to get in. That was what allowed us time to get down there.
But it was not in me to sit by, so I went right outside, and saying nothing to anybody I hit the road for town. I pulled up in the shadow of a barn, saw their horses at the hitch rail of the hotel-saloon, and I walked across the street and up the steps.MoreLess
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