The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'amour, volume 1 (2003)
“He lay on his back, hands clasped behind his head, trying not to think about breakfast. Three weeks ago he had been playing lead roles in Hearts of Oak, Hamlet, and Davy Crockett on successive nights. Then the bookings ran out, the play closed, and the manager skipped town with the company funds, leaving them stranded.
For some time he had been aware of voices in the next room. A girl was speaking. “He can’t! He wouldn’t dare!”
The man’s tone was touched with despair. “They say he’s killed fourteen men. For the kind of money Mason would pay, the Kid wouldn’t hesitate to make it fifteen.”
There was a pause. “Even before my hand was crippled I couldn’t match him. Now I wouldn’t stand a chance.”
“But Pa, if Hickok comes—?”
“If he can get here in time! He’s not the kind to forget what I did for him, but unless he shows up I’m finished. Else, I’d give a thousand dollars to see Bill Hickok walk through that door right now!”
Stephen Malone knew a cue when he heard one.
Guest 9 months ago
How can a bullet hole appear in the RIM of a ha. This is almost an impossibility...unless the hat is standing vertically on it's rim.Yet I've seen dozens of mentions of the very same, "bullet in the rim" from other writers as well.
They just don't know what they were talking about.
In the most magical of circumstances, assuming a bullet did cut the rim of a western hat, unless it was at the side, beyond the wearer's ear, it would kill the wearer, by a shot in the head.
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