7/7/2023 0 Comments Streets of laredo novel![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately for Brookshire, a wagon was parked to the south of the station, and the hat eventually lodged against one of the wagon wheels. This time the hat rode the wind like a fat bird-it had a twenty-yard lead on its owner before it hit the ground, and when it did hit, it rolled rapidly along the gritty street. Brookshire was only a salaried man, and he could not afford to ignore Colonel Terry’s preferences in such matters. It was just a common fedora but on the other hand, it was his only hat, and it was not his custom to go through life bareheaded, at least not while he was conducting business for the railroad. Before he could even get a hand up to grab it, there it went. ![]() Somehow, time after time, the Texas winds lifted his hat. He had taken to ramming his hat down on his head nearly to his eyebrows, but the Texas winds were of a different order than the winds he had been accustomed to in Brooklyn, where he lived. He was forced to chase it-not the first time he had been forced to chase his hat since arriving in Amarillo. This young Mexican is smart, Brookshire said, but before he could elaborate, the wind lifted his hat right off his head. Five smart train robbers could bust every railroad in this country. MOST TRAIN ROBBERS ain’t smart, which is a lucky thing for the railroads, Call said. ![]()
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