Clay Nash 7

by Brett Waring

  “Now!”

  Their hands were down at their sides, beside their gun rigs. A split second later, without appearing to have moved, each of their right hands held a blazing Peacemaker. They got off a single shot apiece, and it was enough.

  Clay Nash staggered to the left, stumbled several steps and then dropped to one knee, left elbow pressed into his blood-streaming side. He bared his teeth as he brought his gun up and around for another shot, wondering if he would have time to get it off, then stopped and let the gun sag to the ground.

  Considine was down on his knees, coughing blood, one hand pressed into his chest, a red wetness welling between his fingers. He had a look of incredulity on his face, mingled with pain, as he tried to speak. Then he pitched forward on his face and lay still.

  Lynn and Brewster helped the shaking Nash to his feet.

  “I’m okay. Just a flesh wound,” he said, staring at Considine’s body.

  Then they all looked up as somebody shouted and they saw the Wells Fargo stage rolling into the depot, a sapling tied travois-fashion where one rear wheel should have been. They knew then why it had been late.

  “I sure hope the marshal’s on that stage!” Brewster said, hurrying towards it.

  “Amen to that!” Nash agreed, smiling at Lynn.

  She looked soberly at him. “You’ll be moving on then?”

  “Not till my wound’s better,” he told her, and winked.

  CLAY NASH 7: SUNDOWN IN SOCORRO

  By Brett Waring

  First Published by The Cleveland Publishing Pty Ltd

  Copyright © Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty Ltd, New South Wales, Australia

  First Smashwords Edition: December 2017

  Names, characters and incidents in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information or storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the author, except where permitted by law.

  This is a Piccadilly Publishing Book

  Series Editor: Ben Bridges

  Text © Piccadilly Publishing

  Published by Arrangement with The Cleveland Publishing Pty Ltd.

  About the Author

  Keith Hetherington

  aka Kirk Hamilton, Brett Waring and Hank J. Kirby

  Australian writer Keith has worked as television scriptwriter on such Australian TV shows as Homicide, Matlock Police, Division 4, Solo One, The Box, The Spoiler and Chopper Squad.

  “I always liked writing little vignettes, trying to describe the action sequences I saw in a film or the Saturday Afternoon Serial at local cinemas,” remembers Keith Hetherington, better-known to Piccadilly Publishing readers as Hank J. Kirby, author of the Bronco Madigan series.

  Keith went on to pen hundreds of westerns (the figure varies between 600 and 1000) under the names Kirk Hamilton (including the legendary Bannerman the Enforcer series) and Clay Nash as Brett Waring. Keith also worked as a journalist for the Queensland Health Education Council, writing weekly articles for newspapers on health subjects and radio plays dramatizing same.

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