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you might run off a’fore we have a chance to get to know each other.”
    â€œYeah,” Speeg said. “If you’d get to know us a little better, why, you’d like us.”
    â€œI doubt that even your mothers like you,” Sally said.
    Speeg laughed. “Whooeee, she’s a feisty little thing, ain’t she, Hoke?”
    â€œI like ’em feisty,” Hoke said. He grabbed himself in the crotch. “What do you say, little lady? Let’s me’n you’n Speeg there get us a bottle and go off an’ have us a good time some’eres.”
    â€œI don’t suppose it matters to you that I’m married,” Sally said.
    Speeg shook his head. “Nope. It don’t matter to us none a’tall.”
    â€œYou see, we ain’t exactly wantin’ to marry you,” Hoke said. “We just want to borrow you for a bit.”
    â€œYeah,” Speeg said, laughing at the concept. “That’s what we want. We want to borrow you for a bit.”
    Sally took the whip from its holder. “I’m warning you,” she said. “Go away and leave me alone.”
    â€œHa! And if we don’t?” Speeg said, starting toward her.
    Moving more quickly than Speeg could react, Sally jammed the butt of the whip into Speeg’s nose, breaking it. He let out a yell and took several steps back, putting his hand to his nose to stop the bleeding.
    â€œWhat the hell?” Hoke shouted, but that was as far as he got before the whip slashed across his face, instantly blackening both eyes.
    â€œWhy, you bitch!” Speeg shouted in anger. He started toward her, but stopped when Sally shot his hat off.
    Sally sensed Hoke coming toward her, but she didn’t turn to face him. Instead, she aimed her pistol at Speeg’s groin.
    â€œUnless you want to squat to pee for the rest of your life, you’ll call your friend off,” Sally said, calmly.
    â€œHoke, no, wait! Wait! Hold it!” Speeg shouted anxiously, holding out his hand.
    â€œYou two men are strangers to our little town, aren’t you?” Sally asked.
    â€œYes . . .”
    â€œMa’am,” Sally said.
    â€œWhat?”
    â€œWhen you speak to me, it’s yes, ma’am.”
    Speeg glared at her, and Sally pulled the hammer back on her pistol. The sound of her cocking the gun was quite audible.
    â€œYes, ma’am,” Speeg said.
    â€œI thought so. And that being the case, I think everyone would be happy to see the two of you climb up onto your horses and leave.”
    â€œYou ain’t the sheriff. You don’t have no right to run us out of town,” Hoke said defiantly.
    Sally smiled, a cold, frightening smile. “What about it, Mr. Speeg? Do I have the right?” she asked, waving the end of the pistol around menacingly, but never moving the aim from his genital area.
    â€œOh, yes, ma’am.”
    â€œâ€˜Yes, ma’am,’ what?”
    â€œYou . . . uh . . . got the right to run us out of town. Come on, Hoke. Let’s get out of here. There ain’t nothin’ worth seein’ in this no’count town nohow.”
    Hoke and Speeg mounted their horses and rode down Center Street until they reached the edge of town. Then, urging their mounts into a gallop, they rode away quickly. Sally stayed on the buckboard, keeping an eye on them until they were well down the road. Not until then did she drive over to Longmont’s.
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    â€œWhy, did you ever see the man’s sister?” Louis was saying, obviously in the middle of a conversation. “No wonder she isn’t married. Her eyebrows alone would stop a man dead in his tracks at fifty paces.”
    Both Smoke and Sheriff Carson laughed at Louis’s unflattering description; then, looking up, Smoke saw Sally coming in.
    â€œHello, Sally. All finished with your shopping, are you?” Smoke asked.
    â€œAll finished,” Sally said.
    â€œWell then,