A Texas Hill Country Christmas (2015)
“The station manager had sent someone running to fetch the physician.
Ace and Chance helped Burnley down from the box. He grumbled, “I don’t know why ever’body’s makin’ such a fuss over me. I just got a bullet hole in my arm, that’s all.”
“Take him inside and put him on the sofa in the office,” the manager said. “You’ll be all right, Gil.”
“I know that, dadblast it. But the fella who shot me won’t be, happen I should ever catch him in my sights.”
Porter didn’t dismount while Ace and Chance half-...carried the wounded jehu into the station. He was walking his horse back and forth impatiently when they emerged from the building a couple of minutes later.
“Now can we go?” he asked.
The Jensen boys swung up into their saddles. Ace said, “Yeah, let’s go see what we can find out.”
The fact that the outlaws had kidnapped Evelyn Channing and Oliver Hudson was pretty troubling, Ace thought as he, Chance, and Porter rode out of Fredericksburg. Road agents hardly ever did that.MoreLess
Ace and Chance helped Burnley down from the box. He grumbled, “I don’t know why ever’body’s makin’ such a fuss over me. I just got a bullet hole in my arm, that’s all.”
“Take him inside and put him on the sofa in the office,” the manager said. “You’ll be all right, Gil.”
“I know that, dadblast it. But the fella who shot me won’t be, happen I should ever catch him in my sights.”
Porter didn’t dismount while Ace and Chance half-...carried the wounded jehu into the station. He was walking his horse back and forth impatiently when they emerged from the building a couple of minutes later.
“Now can we go?” he asked.
The Jensen boys swung up into their saddles. Ace said, “Yeah, let’s go see what we can find out.”
The fact that the outlaws had kidnapped Evelyn Channing and Oliver Hudson was pretty troubling, Ace thought as he, Chance, and Porter rode out of Fredericksburg. Road agents hardly ever did that.MoreLess
Read book A Texas Hill Country Christmas for free
Write Review:
User Reviews: