Chapter 25
Chalk Mark That
Talon and Aggie rode into town with the wagon. Aggie didn’t want to go with him to the General Store to buy the dynamite. He left her at the West Branch and rode on alone. He didn’t really want to use dynamite, but he couldn’t think of another way. It would have to do.
The street was busy when they arrived. The crows were keeping their tireless watch over Main Street from the tops of any structure tall enough to interest them. Another dog had begun to hang around the saloon. He was a big yellow lab-cross that one of the miners owned. He wasn’t quite as lazy as the other two, and could usually be seen sitting on the boardwalk not far from the door. He had wandered up the street and watched Talon pull up to the hitching post in front of the General Store.
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