Lonely Dove
It had to be the Captain because he was the only man on the border who carried a
Henry. Everyone else had already switched to the lighter Winchesters.
The shots meant the Captain was all right. They came from ahead, which was odd, since the Captain had been behind, but
then the vaqueros had been ahead, too. Somehow the Captain had managed to get to the front of the run and deal with
them.
Newt looked back over his shoulder and saw red in the east. It was just a line of red, like somebody had drawn it with a
crayon, over the thick black line of the land, but it meant that the night was ending. He didn’t know where they were, but