Sunday, February 02, 2025

While the getting is good

     He frowned suddenly.  "Whatever happened to Jake Murray?"

    "He went after that deer," Jeanne said, "and he never came back."

    "It was him told me where you'd be," Coker said. "I met him down the trail and he spotted me for a Ranger. He said you wouldn't need any help, but I'd find you up here."

    "That all he said?"

    "He just said, 'Enough is enough, and I've never been to Oregon.'"

(from "A Trail To the West," by Louis L'Amour)

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