Webb's Posse
““When we get down into that valley,” said Summers, “it’s important you keep this bunch back a ways until I let these gunrunners know it’s me. Dick Vertrees has been known to shoot a man’s head off for just looking at him suspicious.”
“Dick Vertrees?” A worried look came to Abner Webb’s battered face. “You didn’t mention Vertrees, Will.”
“Well, I would have if I thought it made this much difference,” Will Summers said with a trace of sarcasm, looking Webb up and down. “What’s wrong with you, Web...b? You look like I threw a snake down your shirt!”
“Jesus, Will,” said Abner Webb. “I had no idea you knew people like Vertrees.”
“I know lots of people everywhere, Webb,” said Summers in his own defense. “When a man buys and sells horses for a living, he meets a wide range of people.”
Webb stared ahead into the shadowed valley as the rest of the men came to a halt a few feet back. “Then I suppose you know Jim Tunley and Arch Baumgartner?”
“I know everybody who runs with Dick Vertrees, Deputy,”MoreLess
“Dick Vertrees?” A worried look came to Abner Webb’s battered face. “You didn’t mention Vertrees, Will.”
“Well, I would have if I thought it made this much difference,” Will Summers said with a trace of sarcasm, looking Webb up and down. “What’s wrong with you, Web...b? You look like I threw a snake down your shirt!”
“Jesus, Will,” said Abner Webb. “I had no idea you knew people like Vertrees.”
“I know lots of people everywhere, Webb,” said Summers in his own defense. “When a man buys and sells horses for a living, he meets a wide range of people.”
Webb stared ahead into the shadowed valley as the rest of the men came to a halt a few feet back. “Then I suppose you know Jim Tunley and Arch Baumgartner?”
“I know everybody who runs with Dick Vertrees, Deputy,”MoreLess
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