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"Yes, but he’s really too easy, Mason Did you bring my Lady Colt?"

He nodded "I wish you’d let un, not this ridiculous toy"

Her voice hardened It was disconcerting in that she looked like an angel, from that smooth thick pale blond hair of hers to the soft blue eyes, the fragile blue of a suet the job done I don’t want a tool like poor Gunther’s It’s not elegant"

He had to agree with that The recoil from the Spanish Star Ten would also knock her on her butt He handed her the Lady Colt, stood back, and watched her put six bullets straight through the chest of the target

She turned, her eyes sparkling, removed her earmuffs, and said in a wicked voice, "And I didn’t even have to fondle it"

"No," he said, drawing her to hih he spoke the words, he wasn’t responding to her the way he usually did Usually she would have been on her back by now She stepped back, laying her Lady Colt on the counter "I wonder what your daughter is doing?"

He shook his head "I called Buzz Caro He said the cops are still acting like idiots,to track her down and this man with her Buzz and three others have fanned out now, looking for her Molly’s an amateur Buzz and his people aren’t They’ll find her He admitted he hadn’t known she’d left Denver He said they’d kept their distance because the cops had hassled them"

"No one’s found her except whoever did this Maybe the bad guys got them, Mason You have to consider that"

"Molly’s sht she was like your wife"

He stared at her, then laughed "Like Alicia? Molly thinks of herself as the ugly duckling coht look like a railroad tie, but she’s smart" He frowned a bit "I suppose she’s like et over here She knows I can protect her and E the shots Don’t you think?"

"I don’t even have an idea yet who he is" He took her araritas"