Doctor Who_ The Gunfighters - Donald Cotton [49]
‘I mean, a man don’t want to be accused of intemperate hallucinations, when he’s a Biblequotin’ officer of the law; and, as for Ike an’ his Pa... well, I suppose they was by nature so accustomed to such alcoholic unreliability of the eyeball, that they never said nothin’, neither.
‘As I recall, Wyatt made some crack about Elijah – who, I gather, was a well-known sky-chariot operator at one time; an’ that was the end of it.
‘But, as for me: I tell you, friend, that in a life devoted to the pursuit of violent an’ bloody incident, I have never had me such a pleasurable rush of superfluous adrenalin to the nerve-endings as in those few, hell-poppin’ days back there...
‘Which is why,’ he concluded, grinning all over his disreputable features, ‘I have raddled and surely enjoyed rememberin’ it all now...’
At this point in his extraordinary story, he lay back on his pillow; and I figured he was about ready to file his claim on Eternity.
Maybe he was at that; but suddenly he opened one bright eye, which encountered a previously unmolested bottle of the right stuff I had been foolishly hoping to save for the journey home.
‘Pity to leave that,’ he sighed; and – if you’ll believe me
– he knocked it back in three!
And then he died.
And I can’t say I’m the least bit surprised.
Document Outline
Front cover
Rear cover
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Prologue
1 Landfall in Tombstone
2 The Last Chance
3 The Brief Career of Dead-shot Steve
4 A Funeral is Arranged
5 Notice to Quit
6 Identity Parade
7 Open Mouth Surgery
8 An Offer Refused
9 A Pardonable Error
10 A Little Night Music
11 And Some Durn Tootin�
12 Arrest Is As Good As A Change
13 The Red Hand of Tradition
14 The Law and Doc Holliday
15 A Very Nasty Little Incident
16 Wyatt Plays It By The Book
17 Pa Clanton Keeps A Welcome
18 Ringo in the Morning
19 Post Mortem
20 Thought for Feud
21 Dodo Draws a Bead
22 The Entry of the Gladiators
23 Come Sun-Up...
Epilogue
Table of Contents
Prologue
Epilogue
1 Landfall in Tombstone
2 The Last Chance
3 The Brief Carreer of Dead-shot Steve
4 A Funeral is Arranged
5 Notice to Quit
6 Identity Parade
7 Open Mouth Surgery
8 An Offer Refused
9 A Pardonable Error
10 A Little Night Music
11 And Some Durn Tootin’
12 Arrest Is As Good As A Change
13 The Red Hand of Tradition
14 The Law and Doc Holliday
15 A Very Nasty Little Incident
16 Wyatt Plays It By The Book
17 Pa Clanton Keeps a Welcome
18 Ringo in the Morning
19 Post Mortem
20 Thought For Feud
21 Dodo Draws a Bead
22 The Entry of the Gladiators
23 Come Sun-Up...