The Desperate Deputy Of Cougar Hill - Plot & Excerpts
He was a man careful with animals and he made the horse go slowly until its muscles were loose. Then he turned from the stagecoach road and worked his way onto the ridge that would take him south. An observant man, he had learned a good deal about the lay of the Cougar country since coming here, and if he had wished, he could have made a quick trip to the mining country. But he preferred to ride slowly and avoid being seen. Even so, he caught a glimpse of a rider down on the valley floor who acted as if he might be looking up at the ridge. Then he recognized Tod Purcell, and decided the boy was probably just out checking Cameron’s cattle for him. Once on the wagonroad, Larabee dropped downslope to Arker’s trail and rode on through the cut to the small stump ranch cupped by logged-off hills. Larabee shook his head as he looked around. He found it hard to understand how men could live the way Arker and Farley did. The cabin was a sag-roofed affair of badly chinked logs and with window panes of scraped gut instead of proper glass.
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