The Queen of Honduras Came to Texas to Buy Bulls, and Fell for the Shortest Cowboy in the Arena novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Courthouse Steps
"Then he won't be by himself," I said.
I hung up on Loretta and turned to my guard captain.
He already had his phone to his ear, calling the pilot.
We were in the air by nine that night.
We came down in Houston at dawn to refuel.
The consul met the plane with an envelope.
Inside was a cashier's check on the Crown's own account at a Houston bank, cut at seven that morning.
Pay to the order of Clyde Bennett. Three hundred eighty-two thousand, five hundred dollars.
Eighty-five head. Rocking B. Forty-five hundred a head.
We landed at the little airport in Marfa at twenty to ten.
The Presidio County courthouse stands at the end of the main street, pale stone with a dome on top and wide steps out front.
Half the county was standing on those steps.
Ranchers in work hats. Wives in quilted vests.
The old rancher in the brown hat from Strother's party.
A dozen men I didn't know who'd sold me bulls the week before.
Three news vans were parked at the curb.
Up at the top of the steps, a sheriff in a tan hat stood with a paper in his hand.
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