Longarm and the Train Robbers

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Deputy Custis Long stared past his manacled prisoner through the Union Pacific train's window and saw a pair of elk hurrying down from the western slopes of the Laramie Mountains to escape an advancing snowstorm. He looked up at the lead-gray underbelly of an ocean of deep, rumbling clouds, and could feel their Union Pacific railroad car being buffeted by the icy northern winds.

"We're going to get a real sonofabitch of a storm," Eli Wheat said, fogging up the window with his hot, fetid breath. "I'd guess that we might not even make it over the Laramie Mountains. Be a damned shame, wouldn't it, Deputy?"

"Yeah," Longarm said drily. "A real shame. Might mean that we'd have to delay your necktie party a few extra days."

"I sure wouldn't bitch about that," Eli said, his dark features shaping into a twisted grin. "Might be that I could even find a way to delay things a bit longer than expected."

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