Slocum And The Diamond City Affair (9781101612118) (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
He stopped at the Peralta Springs Ranch, and the segundo, Juan Calero, put him up for the night. After the evening meal, they laughed around the campfire about the firefight with the Cowboys on the west slopes of the Mule Mountains with the Gatling gun. “We heard five men were killed, and four injured,” one of the vaqueros said. Another spoke up. “And eight good horses dead.” “They probably stole that many more from some poor ranchero in Sonora.” “Hey, Slocum, you have a prettier horse this time, but where is that good-looking woman?” “I think she’s with a rancher I know. He had prettier horses and a finer casa than I did.” They laughed about that. Slocum turned in early—and a woman’s finger on his lips silenced and woke him in the middle of the night. She lifted the blanket and climbed in the hammock with him. “She was crazy for leaving you?”
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