Fool's Gold

L. L. Rigsbee,

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Fool's Gold

A Western Novelette

Packed with action and intrigue, this novelette will be hard to put down.

When Luke Catlin came to the Arizona Territory to help his cousin search for gold, he didn't know the Apaches were on the war path. It didn't take him long to find out.

All he wanted was enough money to get back to Pennsylvania, but a Lipan Apache Indian and a pretty girl had other ideas. They were about to teach him something more about the Apaches - something he wasn't sure he wanted to know.

Excerpt from "Fool's Gold"

Catlin scraped a dry tongue across cracked lips. Squeezing his eyes shut, he tried to exorcise the broad painted face of the savage with the knife. But closing his eyes didn't shut out the image of Ramsey's face, contorted with agony. The taste of salt in his mouth was not from sweat alone. Could death be any worse than the certainty of a lifelong anguished conscience?

At that moment, Ramsey screamed again, the inhuman sound robbing kCatlin of all reason. His fear was replaced with an uncontrolled frenzy of rage. His fingers clenched around the pick handle of their own vlition, and he stood.

"NO!" he screamed. "You filthy, murdering, cold-blooded . . ." A barrage of obscenities and accusations erupted from his lungs. He staggered down the slope on legs numb from lack of circulation.

For a moment the Indians stared at him, too surprised to react. Then a rifle cracked, and one of the Indians yelped and crumpled to the ground. The remaining Indians abandoned their victim and dove for cover.