The Final Showdown: Western Romance Series
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When Bill Boone and Neva Winters found each other, it seemed as if a generations long feud had finally ended. Then the elder Boone and Winters were found where they’d shot it out, and peal of weddings bells changed to the whine of bullets and moans of dying men...
Pat Garrett Jr
Pat Garrett Jr was born in El Paso Texas. His interests include the history and anthropology of the old west. He has always enjoyed the shooting sports. He likes to write westerns and all about the Old Wild Wild West.
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The Final Showdown - Pat Garrett Jr
The Final Showdown: Western Romance Series
By Pat Garrett Jr
Copyright © 2014 by Wangunbooks Publishing
Smashwords Edition
All Rights Reserved
Table of Contents
Chapter One - Desire For Solitude
Chapter Two - The Killer
Chapter Three - Into A Dead Run
Chapter Four - The Tank Wall
Chapter Five - A Double Blast
Chapter Six - Three Things
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The Final Showdown
Chapter One - Desire For Solitude
THE WINTERS-BOONE feud had lasted into the third generation. That is, the third generations on Madrone Range. It seemed that no one, not even the Winters’ or the Boones’ themselves, knew how far beyond that homesteading, gun-fighting, period the common hatred extended. Some said there were two Boones and a Winters who had a scrap with blunderbusses the afternoon of the day the Mayflower landed. The fact that those adventurers sailed under aliases made it plain that their capacity for trouble was nothing new.
Today, beyond the Rockies, the two clans were burying their oldest members, Sam Boone and John Winters, going under an unspoken truce, while the lesser population, citizens of Madrone, looked on at a distance. A motley, though respectful crowd—except for Ed Riggs, the land agent, and his usual gang of imported gunmen. All through the services, Riggs kept up a running fire of undertone remarks about both factions to his retainers.
Riggs made special, biting comments over the fact that Sam Boone and John Winters had succeeded in smoking each other down. He chortled until his flesh shook, finding the business a matter of rare humor.
Neva Winters' usually soft, hazel eyes were dry and tigerish as she walked away from the graveyard and stared up into Bill Boone's immobile face. The touch of pity on young Boone's hard-set lips was wasted as her voice cut at him like a rawhide quirt. Well, Bill, the feud goes on.
Boone nodded. Yes, Neva, it looks that way. But things aren't always what they seem.
You broke your promise,
she accused; you said there would be no more bloodshed.
No, Neva, I didn't break my promise. I said no Boone would ever kill another Winters.
"
But a Boone did kill a Winters! I hate people who haven't the courage to face the truth!
Her voice was near the breaking point. Then she pulled herself together and said quietly. I won't make a scene here, Bill. For the last time, meet me at—
She looked into his eyes, her throttled emotions allowing no expression to cross the forced stolidness of her face.
All right, Neva,
Bill spoke his understanding. I'll be there.
He lowered his gaze and watched her pull her buckskin glove slowly over his ring. Head high, the queenly-looking girl spun about and took the reins of her horse from the hands of one of her waiting cowboys.
As she wheeled and galloped away, eleven Winters' cowhands, heavily armed, slushed through the mud to their horses and pounded after her. It was noticeable that none of them tried to come near her, each being quick to read her desire for solitude.
And, thought Bill Boone, that loneliness would be severe; Neva was next to assume command of the Winters clan, now that her father was gone—a responsibility that isolated her from the others. Boone felt that same thing only too keenly himself, for now that his father was dead he, too, must bear the weight of responsibility, the gnawing loneliness that depressed the spirit and wearied the body.
***
WITH WEARINESS creeping into his face as he watched the Winters outfit grow small with distance, horses pounding full gallop, mud flying like a hail of bullets, Boone turned absently toward his own mount, but jerked up at the first step. One of Neva Winters' men was waiting beside the hitch-rack for him—clean-cut Tex Kreen, Neva's foreman.
Boone,
Tex drawled, "I'm sure sorry's hell this had to happen.