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For a while, Sara began to softly cry and Roy continued to hold her in his arently, he tried to comfort Sara "You don't need to tell this story if you don't want to I can only iine hoful it was"

Sara steadied herself "One of the twins rabbed my arm and tore open my shirt I still remember the look in his eyes because it ild like an ani ti at htmare would never end When they finished, they each spat on me and sauntered out the front door As soon as the door slaether, I walked to the front door and saw both Cready twins lying on the porch bleeding everywhere and screa hiun in his hands

"Soed to load their still bleeding bodies into the buckboard and drove them into town Sheriff Dinkins took care of them after that, but I never told hiured it out, he never said a thing"

"Did Abe or Billy see anything?"

Sara shook her head "I don't think so and they never asked any questions afterward either"

"What happened to the Cready twins? Did they die?"

"No, fortunately, they lived They were pretty disfigured froun blast, but they survived They never caain I think they were afraid of Abe I don't knoould have happened to Abe if he had actually killed two led with the wrong ht at the saloon, several e froed inside Roy He was glad the Cready tere dead because Sara's story reminded Roy of the incident with Michelle Dubois Roy had killed enough usted him "I'm so sorry this happened to you Sara" Roy bent his head and lightly kissed Sara on her forehead

"I've been afraid to tell you any of this because I feared you wouldn't want anything to do with me if you found out But, after you told your story about Mrs Dubois, I ah… well, I…"