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Boots on the porch
had both them looking toward the door when Vince came through. “You don’t obey
orders worth a damn,” he said as he kicked off his boots and walked to the
table.
“When they make sense maybe… sometimes.” Cole smiled and
shook his brother’s hand. “You quit work early.”
“Had some mail.” He set a pile of letters on the counter.
“Saw this in town too.” He handed Cole a paperback book. “Thought while you
were laid up, you might like to read the new one.”
Cole looked down at the cover of the book where a man stood,
legs spread wide with a gun pointed at the reader. “What the hell is this?”
“The latest edition of the Taggert family outlaws.” Vince
laughed.
“Taggerts?” He stared at the title—The Last Taggert Faces His Fate with Guns Blazing.
“Haven’t you seen them before?”
“You are joking? You have this made up to be funny?”
Disgusted, he threw it down on the table.
Vince poured himself some coffee as Holly rose to get the
now protesting Josh. “Not at all. There are more of them out there. I figured
you had to have seen them.”
“Who is this Will Tremaine?”
“No idea.”
“You don’t think Pa would be writing these?” It would be
just like the old man.
“He claims not when I showed him the last one. I think this
is the seventeenth.”
“My God, why?”
“They sell. That’s the reason things ends up in stores.”
“How come our name? Just
a coincidence?” This would not be good for his working for law officers or had
it been better than he imagined. He wondered if Trask had seen it.
“You tell me. Family came out of Kansas with guns blazing.”
Obviously, Vince found it amusing. Cole didn’t see it likewise. He’d worked to
live down that name, and here was this jasper making it infamous. He’d like to
find Will Tremaine and poke him in the nose.
“It’d just make it into a book,” Vince said sitting across
from him with his coffee. He chuckled.
Cole skimmed through the book. It started off with gunplay
and looked as though it didn’t let up. This Taggert could take down seven men
in a shootout and not even consider it an unusual day. He’d have laughed if it
hadn’t been carrying his name. He wondered if someone like that could be sued
to get them to stop. “How long have these been out?”
“I didn’t see the first ones. They come out and disappear as
fast as they are on the shelves. I’d guess some years since there are seventeen
of them.”
“This Tremaine fellow write about more than us? That is not
us but using our name?”
“A lot more. He’s pretty famous. People wait for the next
one. From what Del said at the store, these go the fastest, but I saw one about
a marshal, someone called the Dancing Outlaw, not sure of the name, then the
Frisco Kid. That fellow came from San Francisco and…”
Cole interrupted him. “You read them?”
“Just the Taggert ones. They’re kind of fun. I like the
invincible part especially.” He grinned as he saw Cole’s irritation. “You’re
taking this too seriously, brother. Relax. They can’t arrest us for what
happens in a dime novel.”
“You sure?”
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