Ralph Compton The Convict Trail (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
The marshal did the same, looking over the three men closely, summing up their potential with the iron. It was not idle curiosity on anyone’s part. They were practicing the first law of survival among men who lived by the gun: know your enemy. Kane saw no sign of gun belts, but city men like these would carry some kind of hideout gun. He’d heard of shoulder leather but had never seen it. A campfire conversation he’d listened to back along some forgotten trail returned to him, a waddie saying that Hardin was fast from the shoulder holster. He’d never seen John Wesley either, and that was probably all to the good. “Remember me? Name’s Carmine Provanzano.” The oldest of the three waved a hand. “My brothers, Teodoro and Vito.” The man leaned forward in the saddle, staring at Kane. “Last time we met was in the dark and you looked different, Marshal,” he said. “Bigger, maybe, and younger. Better looking too.” Kane said, “Darkness makes every star shine brighter.”
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