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Jerry Peyton's Notched Inheritance; A Western Story
Jerry Peyton's Notched Inheritance A Western Story Author:David Manning General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: Chelsea House Subjects: Fiction / Westerns Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Mil... more »lion-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE CRISIS THHREE days went slowly, slowly over the head of the sheriff. During that time he was as profane, as slovenly, as smiling as ever, and yet every minute he waited for the crash. His mind reverted to a period fifteen years before when Hank Peyton had been a black name around Sloan. There were two men of might in those days -- Peyton and La Paloma -- and only by an act of grace was Sloan rid of them when Peyton killed the more famous bad man and was himself so terribly shot up that he could never draw a weapon again with a sure hand. After that epic battle he had lived on his savage reputation alone, peacefully; but the picture in the sheriff's eye was the old Hank Peyton. Side by side with it he saw the son of the gun fighter, equally large, stronger, cleverer, and possessing one great attribute which his father had never known -- a sense of humor. Hank had been all fire, all passion, but his son knew how to smile and wait -- in fact, the sheriff knew that he was waiting even now to take the life of Jan van Zandt, and the suspense of that expectation was more terrible to him than the most violent outrage Hank himself had ever committed. Looking into the future, the sheriff found himself already accepting the death of Jan van Zandt as an accomplished fact, and his concern was wholly for his own troubles when he should have to take the trail of young Peyton; but sometimes a sinister, small hope was mixed with his worry -- a hope that Peyton was waiting so that he could make his kill with impunity. After all, that was ...« less