GRAY RIDER CHAPTER 11 THE AMBUSH

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CHAPTER 11 THE AMBUSH

BILL WAITED THERE UNTIL CAPTAIN SHOW UP.   IT WAS GETTING LATE IN THE DAY.  BILL TOOK CAPTAIN TO WATER HOLE 1 AS JACK NAME THEM.

BILLTO CAPTAIN:   JACK SAID WE USE THIS ONE . HE BE AT OTHER WATER HOLE 2 MILES FROM HERE.

CAPTAIN:   YOU TALK TO JACK? WHEN?

BILL:   WHEN JACK AMBUSH ME.   HE SAID A LOT. LIKE RED BEAR ON HIS WAY HERE.  WE IN A TRAP.  COLONEL ROBINSON IS HIS UNCLE.   WHEN ALL COMES DOWN KEEP OUR GUNS IN HOLSTER.  WE BE OK.

CAPTAIN:   COLONEL IS HIS UNCLE!   HE UP A HEAD WAITING ON RED BEAR. WE IN A TRAP.

SERGEANT WAS CLOSE BY AND OVERHEARD THE CONVERSATION.   HE EASE OVER TO THE CORPORAL AND WHISPER SOME THING TO HIM. AS THE SUN SET STORM CLOUDS MOVE IN.  LOOK LIKE RAIN. BILL MADE A LEAN-TO FOR SHELTER FOR HIM AND CAPTAIN . SERGEANT DID THE SAME FOR HIM AND CORPORAL.

 

JACK MADE A RAIN SHELTER FOR HIM AND LIZZIE JANE.   HAD A CAMP FIRE GOING AND COFFEE ON.   SOME SALT MEAT COOKING.

LIZZIE:   JACK AREN'T YOU ASKING FOR A AMBUSH DOING THIS?

JACK:   IF THEY GOING TO DO IT IT BE NIGHT TIME.   WE CAN SEE THEM COMING NOW.

LIZZIE:   YOU THINK THEY HIT US?

JACK:  RUNNING OUT FOR THOSE RED LEGS AND THEY KNOW IT.

JACK:   BILL LET IT SLIP.   ONLY TWO LEFT, THE CORPORAL AND SERGEANT.   WHY I MADE YOUR SHELTER WAY OVER THERE.   OUT THE WAY OF GUN FIRE.

THEY EAT THEIR MEAL, AND ENJOY THE LAST DAYLIGHT AS STORM CLOUDS ROLL IN.

JACK:   LOOK LIKE A REAL RIP SNORTER TONIGHT HUN.

LIZZIE JANE:   YOU KEEP ME WARM TO NIGHT JACK.   PLEASE.

JACK:   AS MUCH AS I CAN LIZZIE.  THAT BE A PLEASURE FOR SURE.

JACK HUNG HIS RAIN SLICKER OVER A EVER GREEN BUSH AND PUT HIS HAT ON IT.   LOOK ALMOST LIKE A MAN IN THE DARK.   HE SNUGGLE UP TO LIZZIE AND GAVE HER A KISS.  THE FIRST CLAP OF THUNDER HIT AND RAIN BEGAN COME DOWN IN SHEETS.

BACK AT WATER HOLE 1. WHEN DARK AND RAIN STARTED  SERGEANT GAVE THE CORPORAL A NUDGE AND SAID IT IS TIME.  CORPORAL SLIP OUT INTO THE DARKNESS. THE CORPORAL WALK THRU THE RAIN AND FLASHING LIGHTENING,  RAINING CATS AND DOGS.   IT WAS RAINING HARD AND HE MADE HIS WAY FOR TWO MILES. HE MADE SURE HE KEEP HIS 44 UNDER HIS COAT TO KEEP IT DRY.

AS HE GOT CLOSE TO THE TREES THAT GREW AROUND THE WATER HOLE Sam SNORTS.JACK HEAR HIM,  MOVES OUT OF THE SHELTER INTO THE DARK AWAY FROM CAMP.   LIZZIE IS A SLEEP.

THE CORPORAL MOVES VERY SLOWLY THRU THE TREES UNTIL HE CLOSE TO CAMP.   THE LIGHTENING FLASHES AND CORPORAL SEE WHAT HE THINKS IS JACK STANDING IN CAMP.   NEXT FLASH HE CHARGES FIRING HIS 44 INTO THE RAIN SLICKER WITH HAT ON.

HE HEAR A POP, POP, POP, POP, LIGHTENING FLASH AGAIN HE SEE LIZZIE FIRING AT HIM WITH HER 44.   IT'S WET AND ONLY THE CAPS ARE FIRING.   THE POWDER IS WET WONT FIRE.   HE TURN TO HER TO SHOOT AND IN LIGHTENING FLASH  HE SEES JACK 5 FEET AWAY WITH HIS SHOT GUN LEVEL ON HIM, BROOOOOM,BROOOM.   CORPORAL IS DOG MEAT.

LIZZIE crying:     JACK, JACK.   JACK GOES TO HER AND HOLDS HER IN HIS ARMS.   HE SOAKED THRU.

LIZZIE:   I THOUGHT HE KILL YOU.   HOLD ME TIGHT JACK.   I TRIED TO HELP YOU.   MY GUN JUST KEEP MISFIRING.

JACK:   I SEEN THAT.  I SHOW YOU HOW TO FIX IT. MAKE NO DIFFERENCE HOW BAD IT IS.  IT WILL FIRE.

JACK:      HOLD ME BABY.  I AM WET, AND COLD.

LIZZIE  HELD JACK TO HER BREAST LIKE A BABY.  TOOK HIS 44 TO MAKE SURE HE SAFE FOR THE NIGHT.   COVER HIM WITH THE BLANKET.   THE LAST LIGHTENING FLASH SHOW LIZZIE HOLDING JACK CLOSE.

CAPTAIN TO BILL:  DID I HEAR GUN SHOTS?

BILL:     YES LAST TWO SOUND LIKE JACK SHOT GUN.

CAPTAIN GOT UP WENT TO SERGEANT SHELTER

CAPTAIN:   WHERE THE CORPORAL?

SERGEANT LOOK AROUND:   HE WAS HERE WHILE BACK.

CAPTAIN:     HE DOG MEAT IF I HEAR THE SHOOTING RIGHT.   WHO SENT HIM TO AMBUSH JACK JOHNSON?

SERGEANT:   I DO NOT KNOW CAPTAIN.  I DID NOT.

CAPTAIN WALK AWAY IN THE RAIN, MAD AND CONFUSED.

BILL:   CAPTAIN ONLY ONE LEFT FOR JACK TO KILL.   I HOPE HE HAS MERCY ON OUR ASS.

FIRST LIGHT BILL AND CAPTAIN HAD COFFEE AND MEAT IN PAN FRYING WHEN THEY SEEN JACK UP ON THE RIDGE LOOKING DOWN ON THEM.   HE WAS DRAGGING SOME THING ON A ROPE.   LIZZIE SHOW UP.   JACK TOOK HIS SHARPS ,AND TOOK AIM.   EVERY BODY DUCK FOR COVER.

JACK FIRED.  COFFEE POT WENT UP IN AIR AND COFFEE WENT EVERY WHERE.   THEN HE FIRED AGAIN THE SKILLET WENT FLYING HOT GREASE EVER WHERE.   JACK STUCK HIS RIFLE IN HOLSTER AND TURN AND RODE OFF.   LEFT WHAT HE WAS DRAGGING BEHIND.

BILL:   HE JUST LET THE SERGEANT KNOW HE ALIVE.

CAPTAIN:     I KNOW BUT THE DAM COFFEE POT. HE KICKS THE DIRT.

CHAPTER 12 THE SERGEANT LOOSES HIS HEAD