A lone traveler headed north doesn’t ask many questions, but he follows the trail of two men he hears about.  One is Ace Perkins, who has committed atrocities with a woman, and the other is Stook Wilson, a stock detective.  Out in the lone country between the Cheyenne River and the Niobrara, the traveler meets up with Perkins and Wilson in a cabin.  The traveler, who calls himself Tom Bell, knows that there is a reward out for Perkins, and Wilson is a hired killer. Before all the smoke clears, the traveler tells Wilson his real name.

“Hap” appeared in The Law of the Gun (Pinnacle Books, 2010). This story also appeared in Blue Horse Mesa: Western Stories (RR Productions, 2012).

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