“I reckoned you’d be called paid for, any time any one come gunning for you. I didn’t think there’d be any consequences.”
“Hereafter, I mean; to your soul. What a pity you didn’t wait a little longer! Those other two are already punished.”
“Don’t lie to me now?”
The little smile lighted his face again.
“I have a load of sin on me—but I don’t think I ever did lie to any one—I guess I never was tempted—”
“Oh, you’ve acted lies enough.”
“OH, MAN ... HOW I’VE LONGED FOR THAT BULLET OF YOURS!”
“You’re right—that’s so. But I’m telling you truth now—those two men had both been in the Meadows that day and it killed them. One went crazy and ran off into the desert. They found his bones. The other shot himself a few years ago. Those of us that live are already in hell—”