By Max Brand
Accumulated right here for the 1st time in paperback are 3 of Max Brand's maximum brief novels, all restored to their unique beauty, simply because the writer meant. within the purple Bandanna, Clancy Morgan returns to city to warn his ally, Danny Travis, that invoice Orping is heading there, searching for a war of words. but if he will get there he unearths that Orping has arrived earlier than him and used to be shot within the again killer. His identify His Fortune is the tale of a tender gambler who falls in love with the daughter of a filthy rich rancher who despises him. And within the ultimate brief novel, delicate steel, Larry Givain, fleeing from a posse, meets a gorgeous lady at a abandoned cabin belonging to 1 of the boys within the posse. Her brother is additionally holed up within the cabin, pursed via a infamous gunfighter. With demise drawing ever closer, Givain realizes his lifestyles will not be an identical back.
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He snapped his teeth on the finish of this. " commanded Pearson. Hands fell on Clancy. Then overmastering hysteria swept over him. He struggled to cast the hands off. They merely became ten Page 32 times stronger, and the fingertips sank into his flesh. " Clancy Morgan screamed. "I didn't kill him. " "Take it like a man," said a voice at his ear. " And he was swept forward until he stood under the single tree that graced Tartartown and the plains around it, a single big cottonwood that rose like a green tower.
Shut up, Jeff," commanded Pearson. " "No," said Clancy Morgan. "Very well, then," said Pearson. "You'll take the consequences, then. " And a dead silence followed. Not one of themnot even Clancy's schoolmatesraised a voice. He knew why. Even a killing can be forgiven, and readily in a country where weapons are commonly worn, but not a cowardly assassination. And Bill Orping had been shot through the back. That was the crux of things. "Very well," Pearson said. "I say that he's guilty as anything.
The shadows of life meant nothing to Clancy Morgan. They never had crossed him, and it seemed probable that they never would cross him. When he smiled, the flash of his eyes and the white glimmer of his teeth, and a bursting good humor and gentleness and kindly content with the world dissolved criticism. Men liked to have him around. So did women. If trouble ever came Clancy's way, one would expect it to be because women liked him too Page 3 well. "But I'm no good with a gun," continued Clancy Morgan.