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The Tucker Twins

Written by James Martin Sandbrook - 2005

Jake glared at her and dropped the knife on the floor in front of him.

Sheza reached over and grabbed the window latch and opened the window, she stepped up on the large window frame and laughed, her body outlined against the sky. The she pointed the gun at Jake and said "I will go, but you will die for your efforts. Dirk never did like you!" and she slowly pulled on the trigger of the six gun.

BANG!

Jake didn't feel anything but he realised that he must be dying and his knees felt weak.

Sheza still had that nasty smile on her face, and then she slowly slipped out the window, everyone heard her body hit the ground with a thud.

Ben looked at Jake and said "She didn't shoot you, somebody shot her".

They all had shocked looks on their faces and then they heard a voice yelling, "We got him, he was trying to get away", they all ran to the window as one to see what had happened and two of Dirk’s thugs were holding a struggling man.

"We found this man trying to escape, it seems that he shot Sheza", as they looked at her body on the ground, "He must have been waiting in the bushes for her to appear as a silhouette in the window light. We caught him while doing our rounds".

They all stared at the mans face in the moonlight.

"My gosh, its the notorious Dick Wellings, Sheza's old pardner", said Dr Jones who recognised the man the thugs were holding from his wanted poster, "So Wellings did come back for his revenge, what a sad ending for Sheza. Its fitting that one of her own kind got her in the end though. You stir up that much hate and someone’s gonna want to get you back eventually".

"You thugs had better leave" said Ben addressing the hoodlums that Dirk and Sheza had hired, "Dirks dead as well", he lied "and now so is Sheza.”

“The law will be here in the morning so move out, not the law in Virginia, but the real law"

Ben turned to Jake and said, "Jake take Dr Jones and handcuff Wellings to a tree out front and put a guard on him, that should hold him until we get the Marshall in the morning".

"Good thinking Ben", said Jake as he jumped out the window carefully trying not to land on Sheza's inert body, "C'mon Dr Jones we have got business to attend to".

The two hired gun hands stared at each other and at the other gun hands that were gathering at the scene of the shooting and when Jake and Dr Jones grabbed the arms of Dick Wellings who was protesting at being caught in the act. The hired guns went off to tell the ranch foreman the news. By morning all the hired guns would all be gone including the ranch foreman.

Lunchtime the next day.

"Lunch is ready" said Dr Jones joining Ben, Mary and Mr Worthington at the front of the ranch house. They all smiled at the thought of eating another of Dr Jones's wonderful meals.

"Well we won't see Dirk and Dick for a few years", said Ben watching the Marshall taking Dirk Worthington and Dick Wellings away, the Marshall waved to the new sheriff and went on his way riding his horse with his captives down the long driveway.

"So sad that Dirk was like that, he could have had so much", said Mary sadly, "Dick Wellings will spend a long time behind bars for shooting Sheza".

To be continued and finished