Ambush at Dark Canyon Page #4

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What happened here?

He got scorpion-bit, sir.

Show me.

- What's that, sir?

- Show me your bite.

Well, you know,

I don't know... You know, I...

Show the bite now, or I'll shoot you dead.

Okay! Please.

There is no bite.

I don't got no bite, sir.

I thought so.

There, now. There, now.

It feels good to tell the truth,

doesn't it, boy?

Yes, it does, sir.

Well, that's still no excuse.

Oh, no! Please! Please!

Throw him in the hole.

I will not tolerate liars.

Get up! Come on!

You got a problem with that?

He's just a kid.

That kid cut a couple in El Paso

from ear to ear with a butcher's knife.

But then, you know all about

murdering women and children, don't you?

- Deputy Sullivan?

- Yes, sir?

Throw him in the hole as well.

Seein' as you're the sympathetic type,

you can spend some time there

with your new friend.

Let's go, Donovan.

Come on.

Next time, it won't be empty.

I'm sorry about this, Donovan.

All right.

Checking the locks.

Stop.

Cut your goddamn tongue out.

Get some sleep.

Still one more week to go.

Cocksucker.

Ladies. Lockdown.

Listen, Donovan.

Yeah, kid?

That... that thing in... Young Country?

Did it really go down

the way they say it did?

You know, in all my years

of working with the law...

- there's one thing I learn.

- And what's that?

Nothing ever went down

the way they say it did.

Yeah.

I guess so.

What about you, kid?

Guessing they got your story wrong, too?

No, sir.

I...

I killed those people...

deader than hell.

After my parents died...

the state took my sister and me.

Put us in an institution.

Then one day, this...

this couple come, and...

they say I was gonna go live with them.

It was all right at first.

Made some new friends and...

had a roof over our head.

Then...

Then, one night...

the wife came into my room.

She wasn't wearin' nothing.

And she said, if I told anyone,

she was gonna send my sister away.

So...

I went along with it for a while.

To protect her.

Then I...

I caught the old man with her.

And I...

I knew I had to do something.

She was just...

just a little girl, you know?

Innocent.

That's a hell of a thing, kid.

That's a hell of a thing.

It's a real touching tale, ain't it?

What about you, Dalton?

What's your story?

Me?

Oh, I've done...

train-jumping and grave-robbing.

Card-playing. Lying, cheating,

stealing pretty much my whole life.

See, I was in... Clementina, New Mexico.

A few weeks ago, in a jail,

waiting on my trial date,

and there was a man in this...

in the jail cell with me.

He's limey, through and through.

Had a real nasty scar on the left side

of his face, result of getting shot.

- What was his name?

- We ain't in no hurry, is we?

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