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doc#144 | </p><p> When several minutes had passed and | Curt | hadn't emerged from the livery stable, |
doc#144 | "You're not to mention my name. Tell her | Curt | Adams wants to see her". </p><p> Summers |
doc#144 | pale, Summers headed for the street. </p><p> | Curt | 's visit to the livery stable had been merely |
doc#144 | Diane's information had been wrong, but | Curt | didn't interpret it this way. A man like |
doc#144 | Black's house without using the street. | Curt | approached the place cautiously, and watched |
doc#144 | curtains prevented any view of the interior. | Curt | circled the house and located a barn out |
doc#144 | sway-backed dun and Jess Crouch's buckskin. | Curt | snuffed out the match. </p><p> It was certain |
doc#144 | but also, presumably, was Stacey Black. | Curt | wanted to get Jess alone, without interference |
doc#144 | and thrashed around in the stall. </p><p> As | Curt | had hoped, the house door banged open. |
doc#144 | hoofs rattling the side of the stall. </p><p> | Curt | moved over beside the door and waited. |
doc#144 | you?" </p><p> The horse continued to snort. | Curt | doubted that any animal belonging to Jess |
doc#144 | As he crossed to the side of the stall, | Curt | drew his gun and clicked back the hammer |
doc#144 | better of it. </p><p> "That's the stuff", | Curt | said. "Just hold it that way". He reached |
doc#144 | </p><p> "You can forget about Brenner, too", | Curt | said. "It's Ben Arbuckle we're going to |
doc#144 | with blood all over it, Arbuckle's blood". | Curt | 's fingers put a little more pressure on |
doc#144 | to do it? Was it Dutch Brenner"? </p><p> | Curt | was holding Jess's gun in his left hand |
doc#144 | might come easy to someone like Jess, but | Curt | couldn't bring himself to do it. </p><p> |
doc#144 | you wouldn't talk so tough". </p><p> "No"? | Curt | reached out and dropped Jess's pistol back |
doc#144 | but he didn't reach for the gun. </p><p> | Curt | , angry enough to be a little reckless, |
doc#144 | his hands fall to his sides. He had found | Curt | 's weakness, or what to Jess was a weakness |