Silver in the Blood
“Unlike Jake Tabor, he could not reconcile a belief in the abstracts of heaven and hell with the harsh reality of the world in which he lived. The strict teachings of his mother and father would not allow him to completely renounce the feasibility of such other existences, but the violence and evil which had been his companions for so long had filled him with a great doubt. So he went to the pump organ and lifted the body of the little bridesmaid with the blood spattered ringlets. She seemed almost weightless in death and he carried her across to the tables and laid her gently down beside her mother.
"You said you wanted to be with her, kid," he murmured, and then went into the stable to get his horse. The animal smelled death in the air and was skittish, anxious to get away from the scene of so much slaughter and agony. But Edge held him at a nervous standstill beside the well and looked down to where an opaque whiteness showed through the inky blackness of the water far below. "If th...ere is such a place, ma'am, you were heading in the right direction," he said and gave his mount a vicious kick in the flanks, jerking the reins to head in a southwest direction aiming to swing wide of Virginia City towards his ultimate destination of San Francisco.MoreLess
"You said you wanted to be with her, kid," he murmured, and then went into the stable to get his horse. The animal smelled death in the air and was skittish, anxious to get away from the scene of so much slaughter and agony. But Edge held him at a nervous standstill beside the well and looked down to where an opaque whiteness showed through the inky blackness of the water far below. "If th...ere is such a place, ma'am, you were heading in the right direction," he said and gave his mount a vicious kick in the flanks, jerking the reins to head in a southwest direction aiming to swing wide of Virginia City towards his ultimate destination of San Francisco.MoreLess
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