Longarm and the Silver Mine Marauders

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Chapter 1

Deputy United States Marshal Custis Long was doing something he very seldom had the chance to do. He was doing nothing and taking quite a bit of enjoyment out of it. At that moment, he was lying on the bed in his room at the Grand Hotel in Taos, New Mexico, on a leave of absence, reflecting on the fact that he was in a hotel that had burdened itself with a name it couldn’t possibly live up to.

But then Longarm really didn’t care. It was late spring, the weather pleasantly warm during the day, the nights velvet with just a touch of ice for variety to make for good sleeping. He was taking a month of leave, something he did so seldom that he couldn’t remember the last real rest he’d had. Normally his boss, Billy Vail, chief marshal in the Denver, Colorado, headquarters, was able to persuade Longarm to do “just one more job” before any kind of leave. In fact, Longarm had known years to go by that way.

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