Longarm and the Desert Damsel

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Chapter 1

It had taken him two days to walk from where he’d lost his horse to the stage relay station somewhere between Gila Bend and Buckeye in the western part of the Arizona Territory. It was June and it was hot and it was the desert. He had made the walk on half a bottle of whiskey and a two-quart canteen of water. Besides that, and two cans of stewed tomatoes, he’d had nothing else to sustain him. He’d walked mostly at night, when it was cool enough to be called cold, and laid up as best he could in the featureless country during the day. There wasn’t a tree or a bush or even a good rise in the ground to shelter him from the relentless sun. So there had been nothing for it except to sling his saddle over one shoulder and his saddlebags over the other and keep footing along, putting one boot in front of the other.

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