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Trails to Two Moons

up the street in the direction of the courthouse and jail. Uncle Alf, the evangelist, led on horseback. Behind him, all mounted, were three: Hilma Ring, with a rifle carried in the crook of her left arm, a villainous-looking man bound as to arms and feet noosed under his horse's belly, and Zang Whistler of the Spout with a bandaged right hand gripping his bridle, and in his left, carried easily on the saddle horn, a .45.