'Certainly I do.' She linked her arm with his. 'And I'm very tempted to take you up on your offer to merge our companies.'
'I don't think that's all he wants to merge,' Molly blurted out.
Kinsman glared at her, but the others all laughed. After a moment, even the rancher gave a rueful chuckle. He said, 'We'd better gather up those prisoners and all the bodies and cart 'em into town. Deputy Bullfinch'll have to make room in his jail for the live ones.'
'Plenty of room at the undertaker's for the dead ones,' Joe Traywick put in.
Aurora stepped closer to Longarm. 'Custis, where is Mr. Flint?'
Longarm inclined his head down the Mountainside. 'Back yonder at the end of that flume. Both of us went shooting off there, but Flint hit headfirst.' Longarm shook his head. 'He won't be causing any more trouble unless he's already trying to take over from the Devil down there in Hades.'
Tugging gently on his arm, Molly led Longarm away. 'I'm going to take good care of you,' she said. 'We'll have you back on your feet in no time.'
'Sounds good to me,' said Longarm.
'And then we'll have you on your back.'
He looked over at her quizzically.
'I want to be on top next time,' she whispered.
The End
