Love's Bounty
Love's Bounty
ISBN: 9780821765968
出版年: 2000-5
定价: $ 6.77
内容简介
Chapter One
Late May??? 1884
Callie walked slowly around the hanging platform??? hardly
aware of the bustle of people around her??? the clatter of wagons???
dogs barking??? children laughing and screaming??? playing tag.
The hanging planned for tomorrow had turned the streets of
i Rawlim??? Wyoming??? into a virtual circus??? with people coming
in from as far away as Cheyenne to watch the gruesome event.
- A train whistle wailed in the distance??? and she did not doubt
s assenger cars were stuffed with more gawkers. A
the uain p .. \" into watch.
hanging was big news. Whole fatmhes were coming
After all??? seeing men justly punished was a good lesson to
children??? showing what could happen if you make the wrong
choiee~ in life.
Callie was herself curious. The newspaper said a good hang-
man fixed things so a man s neck would break instantly once
the noose whipped tightly around his throat. Otherwise he d
kick for a while. She hoped that if she ever found her mother s
murderers??? their necks wouldn t break right away. She wanted
to see them kick.