By Louis L'Amour
You cannot pass domestic again....
East Texas wasn't a lot of a house for Cullen Baker. Few cherished him, and a few even attempted to kill him. but after 3 not easy years of wandering, he is come again to farm the land that is rightfully his.
Only Cullen's in for an unwelcome homecoming: his pals have lengthy thoughts, the Reconstructionists have grasping hearts, and his worst enemy has teamed up with a vicious outlaw. yet Cullen isn't really approximately to back off. as a substitute, he is rationale on perfecting a brand new method of gunfighting—the quickly draw. And now, with enemies remaining in on 3 aspects and dangerous the lady he loves, he will need to be speedier than lightning—and two times as deadly—just to outlive.
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It’s been my observation that the men with fluent tongues are the ones who get the womenfolks, and a slick tongue will get them even faster than money. ” Well…there was that question I’d been asking myself, and of which I didn’t rightly know the answer. There were answers I’d given myself, however. “It’s all the home I ever had,” I told her, trying to make the words answer my own problem. “My folks are buried out there back of the orchard where Ma used to walk. The land is mine, and it is good land.
And then out of nowhere a pistol barrel caught me across the skull and my knees went rubbery and I fell, and then they closed in, kicking and striking as I rolled on the ground, trying to evade them. Their very numbers interfered with brutality. ” And he kicked me in the head. Only a quick turn of my head saved me the full force of that kick, but I pushed my face into the soft grass and relaxed as if unconscious, which I nearly was. ” And in the brief moment before consciousness slipped away, I felt a swift, savage exultation that so far they had not found my derringer.
Aunt Flo had not come down, although I heard some stirring about upstairs. For me it was just as well. I’m no hand at getting acquainted with people in bunches. I’d rather cut one out of the herd and get acquainted slow-like so I can really know what the person is like. Never much of a talker I’d little business with women. It’s been my observation that the men with fluent tongues are the ones who get the womenfolks, and a slick tongue will get them even faster than money. ” Well…there was that question I’d been asking myself, and of which I didn’t rightly know the answer.