Chapter 15
Hell to pay. Yep, and wasn’t that the truth of the matter? Steve couldn’t believe how dumb he’d been.
Bart and Frank were being dragged off to jail when he arrived in town, and the sheriff had been smug about it.
Steve was no fool, though, and he wasn’t going to react to the bastard.
“They’re gonna swing, stranger, and there ain’t nothing you can do about it. The good folk of Willow Crick don’t take kindly to getting their streets shot up and honest citizens murdered in broad daylight.”
A look at Bart and Frank saw they had turned white as a sheet, and Steve watched helplessly as three men hustled them off to jail.
A crowd began to gather, and Steve attempted to appeal to them.
“Bart Hall and Frank Thompson are decent men. They’d never shoot at anyone who—” Steve wanted t
