“Will you promise, honest injun, not to kill or maim him, not to do anything that will injure him permanent?”
“Yes, ma’am. We’ll jes’ jounce him up some.”
“All agree to that?”
They did.
“Will you go along with the boys, Jim?” She smiled. “Just to see they’re not too—enthusiastic.”
The owner of the Wagon Rod said he would.
Mollie nodded. “All right, boys. The quicker the sooner.”
Fifteen minutes later Jake Houck went out of town on a rail.