Star Toter

It had been seven years since Orin Locke had left Highpoint, but he found it pretty much unchanged. Even Dr. Fletcher Bannon, who had the makings of a fine medico but wasted his talents, was still drowning his sorrows at the same table in the same dingy saloon. Locke, however, brought back to the Wild Buttes a reputation he had not had before: a rep as the fastest man with a gun in a land of fast men, the coldest-hearted marshal that ever tamed a town.Ordinarily, funerals took place after he hit a place. Therefore, he was sardonically surprised to see one that had obviously been scheduled before his arrival, and to learn that the corpse was the former sheriff.That meant a potential job for Locke. The only question was: would toting a star interfere with the vengeance mission on wihich Orin was bound, a mission directed primarily against his own brother whom he hated?