The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'amour, volume 2 (2004)
“A trembling hand lifted, the fingers stirred, and the dying lips attempted to form words, trying desperately to tell him something across the void, to deliver a final message.
Chick Bowdrie stared, struggling to interpret the words, but even as he stared he saw the lips cease their movements and the man was no longer alive.
Lowering his glasses, Chick studied the wide sweep of the country. Without the glasses he could see only the standing horse that had first attracted his attention. The canyo...n between them was deep, but the dead man lay not more than one hundred yards away.
Mounting his hammerheaded roan, Chick Bowdrie swung to the trail again and started down the steep path into the canyon. By this route the man must have come. Had he been dying then? Or had he been shot as he reached the other side? There had been a dark blotch on the man’s side that must be blood.
Twenty minutes later he stood beside the dead man. No tracks but the man’s own. Falling from his horse, the fellow had tried to rise, had finally made it, struggled a few steps, and then fallen, to rise no more.MoreLess
Chick Bowdrie stared, struggling to interpret the words, but even as he stared he saw the lips cease their movements and the man was no longer alive.
Lowering his glasses, Chick studied the wide sweep of the country. Without the glasses he could see only the standing horse that had first attracted his attention. The canyo...n between them was deep, but the dead man lay not more than one hundred yards away.
Mounting his hammerheaded roan, Chick Bowdrie swung to the trail again and started down the steep path into the canyon. By this route the man must have come. Had he been dying then? Or had he been shot as he reached the other side? There had been a dark blotch on the man’s side that must be blood.
Twenty minutes later he stood beside the dead man. No tracks but the man’s own. Falling from his horse, the fellow had tried to rise, had finally made it, struggled a few steps, and then fallen, to rise no more.MoreLess
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Guest 11 months ago
I understood that Bowman heavy man or not, had been shot in the stomach, and in that case his chances of living were poor. Yet here he is tracking through the lava beds.I just don't understand this part.
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