Waco 3
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People crowded out from where they’d been standing watching. Tommy Melveny shoved the gun back into leather and turned to Waco.
‘I’d like to buy the gun.’
‘Why, there’s plenty more like it at Neil’s Hardware store.’
‘Not like this one it’s—’
‘A new gun. I bought it for Doc’s birthday and it’s never been fired before.’
Tommy lifted the gun from leather and looked down at it again. Now he could see that this was no well-used firearm; it was new, brand new.
‘But you said it belonged to Dusty Fog,’ he finally got out.
‘Sure and you believed it. The same as you believed the other belonged to Bad Bill Longley. Tell you something, ole Bad Bill never owned a Peacemaker in his life. He used the 1860 Army gun. That one you owned couldn’t have been his.’
‘Why didn’t you tell me sooner?’
‘You wouldn’t have believed me. That was why I brought the gun just before you needed it. I didn’t want you examining it too closely. Now do you see there’s nothing to that idea that the gun makes you fast.’
Tommy squared back his shoulders. In that moment he changed from a boy to a man. He took the gun from his holster, handing it back to Waco then laughing, he started to walk away.
‘Where’re you going boy?’ Biscuits asked.
Looking back over his shoulder, Tommy grinned broadly. ‘To buy me a gun.’
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