The Shadow Riders (1982)
“Hunching his shoulders against the cold, pelting rain, Major Mac Traven slipped a hand under his caped coat to assure himself his spare pistol remained in position. A sudden gust of wind rattled rain upon his campaign hat and spattered his face and hands.
Desperately tired and carrying the gnawing hunger from three missed meals, he glanced back along the road at the scattered travellers.
They were an army no longer; like himself they were just tired men returning to homes left long ago. Once th...ey had marched with the proud steps of men with a mission to be accomplished; now they plodded wearily, heads down against the rain, thinking only of home.
Under the bare black trees water gathered in pools like mirrors of steel as the rain fell from the sullen sky. Somewhere ahead was a town, if such it could be called, a dismal place by all accounts, but it held the promise of a hot meal and grain for his horse. More he could not expect, yet there might be a letter.
"Watch yourself," he had been warned.MoreLess
Desperately tired and carrying the gnawing hunger from three missed meals, he glanced back along the road at the scattered travellers.
They were an army no longer; like himself they were just tired men returning to homes left long ago. Once th...ey had marched with the proud steps of men with a mission to be accomplished; now they plodded wearily, heads down against the rain, thinking only of home.
Under the bare black trees water gathered in pools like mirrors of steel as the rain fell from the sullen sky. Somewhere ahead was a town, if such it could be called, a dismal place by all accounts, but it held the promise of a hot meal and grain for his horse. More he could not expect, yet there might be a letter.
"Watch yourself," he had been warned.MoreLess
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