“Adios, amigos,” grinned Benito.
A few moments later, Shelley and the cowhand heard the receding thud of hooves; the hunters were on their way out of Tascosa. They lay quiet, both thinking of the big ex-sergeant and his itchy-fingered shadow.
“Couple of real salty hombres, eh, Shelley?” mused Pat. He didn’t wait for an answer, but talked on. “You know, it’s kind of crazy, but I damn near wish I was ridin’ with ’em. I’ll be a rich man when I go home to Quinn County. I can get squared with my old boss, and wed up with Molly—the purtiest gal you ever saw—and that ought to be enough to make any man happy. And yet I’ll miss Big Jim and the Mex. I’ll think of ’em often—and wish I could be ridin’ along with ’em. Now I ask you. Ain’t that the craziest idea you ever heard?”
The government man grinned wistfully and replied: “Not so crazy, cowboy. Not so crazy.”
About the Author
Leonard Frank Meares (February 13, 1921 - February 4, 1993)
Sydney born Len Meares aka Marshall Grover, published around 750 novels, mostly westerns. His best-known works feature Texas trouble-shooters Larry and Stretch. Before starting to write, Meares served in the Royal Australian Air Force, worked in the Department of Immigration and sold shoes. In the mid-1950s he bought a typewriter to write radio and film scripts. Inspired by the success of local paperback westerns, he wrote Trouble Town, which was published by the Cleveland Publishing Company in 1955.
His tenth yarn, Drift! (1956), introduced Larry Valentine and Stretch Emerson. In 1960, he created a brief but memorable series of westerns set in and around the town of Bleak Creek. Four years later came The Night McLennan Died, the first of more than 70 westerns (sometimes called oaters) to feature cavalryman-turned-manhunter Big Jim Rand.
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