The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard (2004)
“"I've put up with that closemouth cold-water way of yours a long time. I've watched men stand clear of you, afraid they'd step too close and you'd come to life. I watched Mr. Kergosen, then Ellis, won over to your sly ways. But all that time I was seeing through you--looking clean through, and there was nothing there to see. No backbone, no guts, no nothing." Sandal was grinning, leaning over his saddle horse. "Eat him up, Layo!" Pyke's eyes did not leave Treat. "If you were worth it, I'd take ...my gun off and beat hell out of you." Treat's eyebrows raised slightly. "Would you, Leo?" "You damn bet I would." Sandal said, "Go ahead, man. Do it." "Shut your mouth!" Pyke threw the words over his shoulder.
"The vision of being segundo returns with the return of the daughter," Sandal said, grinning again. To Grady, next to him, he said, "How would you like to work for this one every day?" Grady shook his head. "She can't marry him now. And that's the only way he'd get to be Number Two." "I think she married him," Sandal said, nodding at Treat, "to escape this one." "I said shut up!" Pyke screamed, turning half around, but at once he looked back at Treat.MoreLess
"The vision of being segundo returns with the return of the daughter," Sandal said, grinning again. To Grady, next to him, he said, "How would you like to work for this one every day?" Grady shook his head. "She can't marry him now. And that's the only way he'd get to be Number Two." "I think she married him," Sandal said, nodding at Treat, "to escape this one." "I said shut up!" Pyke screamed, turning half around, but at once he looked back at Treat.MoreLess
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