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their glasses and blushed. “By golly,” she said with her voice a little husky from the fiery liquor, “I believe that you’re a man worth fighting and dying for.”
    â€œLike your father?”
    â€œLike my father.”
    Longarm nodded, and they drank their mash down neat.
    â€œTo bed!” she cried, grabbing his hand and nearly jerking him off his feet as she rushed back into her bedroom.
    They threw themselves into a second bout of passionate lovemaking. When it was finally over and they lay close together, Longarm said, “I never made love with a woman doctor before now.”
    â€œAnd I never had a tall, handsome marshal,” she replied.
    After that, they lay tight in each other’s arms, each silently thinking about Buffalo Falls and wondering how they could possibly stop Wade Stoneman.

Chapter 5
    Longarm and Addie arrived at the train station just minutes before the train was set to pull out for Cheyenne. They found Marshal Billy Vail pacing up and down the platform in a state of high anxiety.
    â€œWell, there you are!” Billy said sarcastically. “Custis, I’m so glad you could get out of bed and finally make it down here to the station.”
    Longarm was in no mood for levity, so he nodded and took the money that Billy handed him in a brown envelope. “How much?”
    â€œTwo hundred.”
    â€œI was hoping for at least four hundred,” Longarm said with a frown of disapproval. “Billy, you know that I might have to hire a few men as well as a horse and outfit. On top of all that, I’m going to need to buy a good rifle and boxes of ammunition.”
    â€œHow come you didn’t bring your own rifle?” Billy said, not pleased. “The new one we bought you when you got in that big fix over in Santa Fe.”
    Longarm looked sheepish. “Well, if you have to know, the last time I took it on an assignment, it was . . . was stolen.”
    Billy shook his head with disgust. “That’s pathetic, Custis. You’re a deputy United States marshal and you allowed someone to steal your new Winchester?”
    â€œDammit, Billy, I got distracted.”
    â€œBy a woman, I’ll bet.”
    Longarm looked away, confirming Billy’s suspicion.
    â€œSpeaking of women,” Longarm said, pocketing the cash and wanting to change the tone of the conversation. “This is my new friend, Miss Addie Hudson. Addie was the young lady that was mugged yesterday, so don’t be thinking I beat her up and gave her both a split lip and a shiner.”
    Billy managed a tolerant smile. “Miss Hudson. I’m glad that my deputy could help you yesterday. Sorry that you had to go through such a bad experience.”
    â€œHe’s my hero,” Addie said, using her good eye to wink at Longarm and then slipping her arm through his arm. “Marshal Vail, I’m sure that I don’t have to tell you that you’re very fortunate to have such a brave and resourceful deputy marshal.”
    Billy nodded. “He’s one of a kind, all right. A real piece of work for certain. I don’t have anyone else that I would dare send alone to Buffalo Falls. So let’s just hope that we see him return safe and in good health.”
    â€œI’m going to do my best to see that is what happens,” Addie said. “I’m a doctor, Marshal Vail. Even more to the point, I’m accompanying Marshal Long to Buffalo Falls.”
    â€œNo!” Billy’s response was instantaneous and instinctive. Probably embarrassed by his outburst, he lowered his voice. “I didn’t mean to sound so forceful, Miss Hudson, but Custis is going on a very difficult and dangerous assignment. I really don’t think that you should—”
    â€œI know all about the dangers he’s up against,” Addie said, cutting him off. “And while I don’t want to shock you, I’m from Buffalo Falls.”
    Billy’s