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you talking about?”
                  “That thing you said about if you got shot dead, it wouldn’t matter much about what he was thinking about doing to me?”
                  “Oh that. I knew there was no chance he could beat me. Besides, you were quite a distraction yelling in my ears when I’m was facing off with a gunslinger so I didn’t really think about it much, I just said it,” replied Jess.
                  “Well, I didn’t like it anyway,” retorted Annie, as she started to turn around to leave the saloon and head back over to the hotel.
                  “Well, you are a distraction like I said,” replied Jess.
                  “I heard that,” retorted Annie, not even turning around.
                  Jess watched her as she walked out and she was in fact a real distraction to him. He turned to the barkeep and told him to pour him another shot of the good stuff. Jess enjoyed a few more drinks and sent for the undertaker to come and get the body and hold it for him so that he could strap him over his horse and take him to the nearest town where he could make a claim for the bounty. After that, he walked over to the hotel and unlocked his room and went to bed, but not before thinking about Annie who was in the room next to his.
     
    CHAPTER FIVE
     
                  In the morning, Jess and Annie went back to the café where they had eaten the day before and they both had a big breakfast. Jess paid the livery worker to tie Lovett’s lifeless corpse onto Lovett’s horse real tight for the ride to Wichita, to see Sheriff Davies and file a claim for the bounty on Lovett’s head. Before they left Buckley, Jess stopped at a general store and bought up some more supplies for their trip. While they were in the store, Jess noticed Annie looking at a new pair of pants and when she noticed that Jess was watching her, she looked up and smiled at Jess and he knew what it meant.
                  “Go ahead and get them if you want. Pick out a new top and a new hat too since that one you’re wearing looks pretty ragged,” said Jess.
                  “Why, thank you, Jess. It’s about time you started spending some of your money on something worthwhile for a change,” replied Annie.
                  “Don’t make me change my mind about it,” retorted Jess.
                  Annie went about picking out an entirely new outfit and she changed in the back room of the store. Jess was outside now packing his supplies in his oversized saddlebags when Annie walked out of the general store, all gussied up and sporting her new outfit and new hat. She spun around in a circle and did a little curtsy to show off her new duds.
                  “Well, what do you think?” asked Annie.
                  “They look quite nice,” replied Jess, as he climbed up in the saddle, his right hand on his pistol to hold it in good.
                  “That’s it? Just nice?” retorted Annie.
                  “What else am I supposed to say? I said they look nice.”
                  “Boy have you got a lot to learn about a woman,” replied Annie.
                  “Apparently so,” replied Jess, as he nudged Gray into a walk heading out of town, Lovett’s horse following behind Jess’ packhorse, Sharps. Jess tied Lovett’s horse to Sharps with an extra-long rope since he knew the stench of the corpse would get worse by the hour.
                  They rode all day and finally made camp by a river and some big boulders for a little cover. Jess tied Lovett’s horse with the corpse to a tree about two hundred feet away because of the smell. Annie went about collecting some firewood, started a fire and made some coffee. Jess took his Winchester and walked into a clump of trees when Annie heard two shots. Jess came out