Clint first walked to Tolbert, to be sure he was dead. When he was certain, he walked to the other two. Satisfied that they, too, were dead, he ejected the empty shells from his gun and reloaded.
Locksley was still cringing between the two bodies.
People were starting to come out onto the street. Clint grabbed Locksley’s arm.
“Let’s go and see your wife.”
He dragged Locksley into the building, and up the stairs. When they entered the office, the first thing Clint saw was the shattered glass in the big window. He hadn’t known where Tolbert’s wild shot had gone, but now he did.
Angela Locksley was lying on her back across her husband’s desk, a bullet hole in her forehead.
“Oh, God!” Locksley said, turning his head.
“Why are you turning your head away, Locksley?” Clint asked. “I heard you and the missus weren’t getting along. Guess that’s why she was sleeping with Tolbert while you were sleeping with Mary Connelly.”
Locksley gave Clint a murderous look. Clint put his gun barrel to the man’s forehead, turning the look into one of fear.
“I can give you a matching bullet hole, so that you and your wife will look alike.”
“N-No.”
“I think a lot of the townspeople heard everything that was said out there,” Clint said. “You’re finished in this town. If there was a real sheriff in town, I’d turn you over to him.”
“L-Look, Adams—”
“Now tell me you’re going to leave town if I leave you alive.”
“I—I’m gonna leave t-town.”
“Today?”
“Today.”
“I want you gone before Mary Connelly comes back,” Clint said. “She and Doc are delivering a baby, and I’ll want to give her the good news that she doesn’t have to leave town.”
Locksley nodded.
“Don’t worry about your wife,” Clint said, removing the gun but leaving a round circle on the man’s forehead. “I’ll see she’s buried properly.”
“Where will I go?” Locksley said.
“You might try going to see your son,” Clint said, walking to the door. “You can tell him how you got his mother killed.”
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