Now Playing: The Silent Child
Episode Twenty-One concluded with:
“How’d you wise up to us, Rance?”
“After
that story about the jewelry, I’ve been keeping an eye on you guys. I noticed
that you were being very kind to Laszlo and spending some time with him.
Fortunately, Laszlo was happy to share about the joke you were playing on the
Harpers. Of course, you’d have had to kill Laszlo too.”
Rupert
rolled his eyes upward. “But we never got that far. Guess the plan had a fatal
flaw.”
Clarence
sighed deeply. "'Fatal’ is a good way to put it. For once, brother, you
called it right.”
Episode Twenty-Two
***
Dehner rode his horse from the
livery as the sun was beginning its rise. The detective felt restless. The talk
with the Bushrod Brothers had ended only a few hours before. Rance couldn’t
figure out what was bothering him.
“Mr. Dehner!” A female voice called
out to him.
He pulled up in front of Harper’s
Mercantile. “Good morning, Mrs. Harper. Good morning, Pixie.”
Kate’s face was beaming, so was that
of the little girl. “Pixie has something she wants to say to you. Go ahead,
honey.”
Pixie looked at him shyly. “Thank
you for helping me.”
Dehner responded in a soft voice, “Happy
to do it, Pixie, and it is great to hear you talking.”
Enoch strolled out onto the
boardwalk. “We’ve decided, all three of us, that Pixie is going to be her name
from here on out. Pixie Harper. That name sounds good to all of us.”
Dehner laughed, “That marks the
first time I ever had a hand in naming a child.” As he waved good-bye to the
Harpers, he wondered if it would be the last.
He was miles away from Candler
before he understood what had been bothering him. The detective had really
wanted to stay in town long enough to watch the Bushrod Brothers hang. But not
for the right reason, not because he’d be watching two cold blooded killers get
what was coming to them.
Dehner was sure that Rupert and Clarence would
make it a barrel of laughs.
Tomorrow: A new
Rance Dehner western adventure, Dangerous
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