He had taken the time to wash and shave and to give his suit yet another brushing so that he presented a model of well-groomed cleanliness as he jogged along beside his disheveled companion. Edge’s hard face was patterned by a dark beard line and his clothes were crumpled and crusted with the swe...
But he wept a great deal on the trip south from Washington. For most of the way it was night and there was no one to see him. Then, when dawn broke, his emotions were exhausted, squeezed dry of the capacity to feel grief or express it. Those early risers who saw the lone rider on the bay gelding ...
The black-clad stranger to Oceanville was paid not the slightest attention when he went inside to get his gear. When he re-emerged, the Mexican woman was shuffling back home, the hem of her dress held up to retain the broken glass and her head averted so that she did not look at him. Joe and Vic ...
Edge had slept undisturbed throughout the entire night and came awake in an instant, hand streaking towards the Winchester as Anatali tugged at his bare feet. He was immediately aware that the rain had stopped and that the darkness of night, had been replaced by the murky grey of morning without ...
He was a half-hour of slow riding away from the clearing and guessed that soon he would reach another hillbilly homestead. Was aware, also, of the possibility that at any moment he was likely to hear Will and Jesse Gershel and however many men they had rounded up coming down the trail. Three or f...
It was the way of their brutal leader to attack his objectives such a time. For, he reasoned, that at such an hour a raid was never expected, and those who might attempt retaliation were at their most unready. Sleep robbed a man of his defenses and in the few seconds it took him to realize his ...
Rhett, Bell and Douglas joined Hedges; and Seward and Scott followed Forrest into the house next door. They were little more than cabins, single storied with a sparsely furnished sitting room and a bedroom and kitchen each. In common with their outward appearance, they were neatly kept and extrem...
