Chapter 70
He was surprised to hear three separate reports; he'd been aware of only the one bullet strike. He decided they were a couple of additional shots and assumed he'd missed the sound of the first bullet fired. For sure, these last two rounds had not impacted anywhere near him. The bearing of the firing seemed to be from the tall bluff to the west of where he'd been holed up. Until now, he'd assumed the shooter was on the same ridge he was--maybe even somewhere up behind the little hollow he'd used for concealment. Surely his hiding place had been out of range from the other side of the valley. Evidently NOT, he grumbled to himself. Where he stopped running and gone to ground, he couldn't see much in any direction and certainly nothing up on the bluff from where the shots had apparently come
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