to run away by the well didn't die right off," Coker said. "He was pretty shot up, but still breathin'. We asked his name. He said it was Finney. Then we asked what happened at my ranch."

Coker looked at Charley and then back to me."This Finney feller said Bledsoe had the bottle fever pretty bad and was drunk for days when they came to my place. He said after they ransacked the house and had their way with the women, Bledsoe and another feller went loco. They grabbed shotguns and decided to kill everybody still alive. They wanted no witnesses. Ba, Lucio, Graciela—they were lucky that they hid out. Them boys in the bunkhouse wasn't so fortunate."

"And Finney?" I asked. I remembered Finney and Hiley from that night in 1879, when Ben Minot and I rousted them...

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