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Chapter 1

A man had to study on his drinking money when he didn't have a job. But
while the Parthenon Saloon, near the place he used to work, asked an
extra nickel for a needled beer, it also offered the best free lunch in
town. So the former Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long was down at that
end of the bar, nursing a needled beer while eating pickled pigs' feet
and potato salad, when his recent boss, Marshal Billy Vail, caught up
with him.

The older and shorter Vail bellied up to the bar, snapped a
German-silver badge upon the polished mahogany between them, and
demanded in an injured tone, "What in blue blazes did I do or say, old
son?"

Longarm, as he was better known away from the federal building he'd just
stormed out of, coldly replied, "At the risk of sounding like your fool
echo, you told me you wanted me to sneak down the other side of the
Colorado-New Mexico line and ride herd on a heap of storm clouds hoverin
over La Mesa de los Viejos, which is ominously close to Jicarilla
country."

Billy Vail nodded his balding bullet head. "I thought I said something
to that effect just before you threw your badge in my face and lit out
like a schoolmarm seven unwashed sheepherders were out to screw."

Longarm washed down some potato salad with a carefully measured swallow
of expensive beer and replied, "The government signed with the Jicarilla
in ink after making them move twice before, speaking of screwing."

Vail seemed sincerely puzzled. "What in thunder do those Mountain
Apache have to do with the chore I was assigning you when you went loco
en la cabeza on me?"

Longarm sounded really disgusted as he replied. "The Jicarilla have
kept the peace since '73. They have more in common with their Navaho
cousins than they have with Victorio's mixed band of bronco Mescalero