The sight of the three-month-old made him smile, as always. “You’re going to be a handsome man, just like your pa,” he whispered. Joshua had been born in late January. Hawk had had to help with the delivery because Deborah Stevens had trouble getting to their cabin through the snow. Everything ha...
He had persuaded Judge Thomas Johnson to set up the courtroom in the middle of a mixture of canned food, harnesses, and bolts of cloth. Judge Johnson was a scrawny man with a wispy beard and a pair of sharp eyes that missed very little. He leaned back in a cane-bottomed chair from time to time, t...