By Bill Brooks
Coffin apartments, New Mexico, is a not anything city in the course of nowhere—which matches Jim Glass simply high quality. searching for any task, he is courted through the neighborhood brothel owner—because Jim is nice along with his fists in addition to his gun—but in its place he's employed by means of Marshal Chalk Bronson. A hothead named Johnny Waco is threatening to burn Coffin apartments down if his runaway wife's now not back to him—a girl who enjoyed Marshal Bronson till destiny and struggle separated them. Now Glass has a plan that can make issues correct . . . or a long way worse than they're already—the worst type of scheme that can pull the drifter right into a international of killers and heartbreak . . . and towards a future jam-packed with demise.
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He simply picked up his newspaper and tucked it under his arm and walked out into the mid-morning light that seemed to just swallow him whole. ” I said. “City marshal Chalk Bronson,” he said. ” I hung around till lunch and bought another beer and dug into the meats and bread and cakes and went off and found myself a table—the same one the lawman had been reading his newspaper at—and sat there eating and sipping my beer like I owned the place. I counted out my money. I was down to seventeen dollars and two bits.
He just wants me to grovel awhile before he puts his boot on the back of my neck. Maybe I give him back what he wants he’ll let things go. ” “Tell you what,” I said. “I’m supposed to go see Pink about that job. Let me go see what I can find out with regards to Antonia. ” “Yeah. ” His gaze dropped to his coffee cup; a small black mirror that reflected a troubled face. ” I stood and went out into the cool night. You could feel the seasonal change, and the sky looked like it Rides a Stranger 43 had holes poked in it with silver pins.
It had ostrich feathers. He let her know from the outset his intentions to marry her. He professed his love and his desire for her. Even if he wasn’t Chalk Bronson, it was still flattering in a way. There was no one else that came even close to being marriageable. Just old men, punchers, gamblers, the occasional drummer selling tinware or elixirs from the back of a medicine show wagon. She’d told him no at first, said she wasn’t ready for marriage. Her heart still longed for the man who’d gone away and never came home again.