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          SHOWDOWN     Copyright © Patricia Potter. All rights reserved.                 CHAPTER TEN  4:06 p.m.                                                                                                                                                             On his knees and bent double, Jared put his good hand to his side, felt blood flowing through his fingers and wondered through the morass of pain if the wound was mortal.  In the next instant, Mary [...]

          SHOWDOWN        Copyright © Patricia Potter. All rights reserved.                  CHAPTER NINE  4:05 p.m.   “You always have a choice.” Mary Beth’s words echoed in Jared’s mind as he stood waiting for Billy Joe Carter to make his move. The wagon had stopped somewhere behind him.  He dared not look [...]

          SHOWDOWN        Copyright © Patricia Potter. All rights reserved.                  CHAPTER EIGHT  4:04 p.m. Continued   Carter had been waiting for him when he rode in to make the final arrangements for the wedding.  They were to meet with the minister at noon. Instead, Billy Joe and two companions confronted [...]

            SHOWDOWN        Copyright © Patricia Potter. All rights reserved.     CHAPTER SEVEN            4:04 p.m. Continued   What followed the afternoon Mary Beth tended his wound was a most proper courtship.  For five and a half months, Jared made twice-weekly trips to town for the express purpose of visiting Mary Beth.  They [...]

        SHOWDOWN        Copyright © Patricia Potter. All rights reserved.                 CHAPTER SIX            4:04 p.m. Continued   Jared remembered every moment of that day.  They were engraved in his heart.  He remembered Jonny’s eager face, the boy’s grin when Jared smiled and said, “You may have a sale.” “They’re free,” the boy [...]

          SHOWDOWN      Copyright © Patricia Potter. All rights reserved.                     CHAPTER FIVE  4:04 p.m.   Pay day had arrived. Was it fate:  Coincidence?  Or justice?   He had been in the saloon, talking to Bill Dale, the banker when a stranger stopped in for a drink.  Jared hadn’t recognized the man, [...]

           SHOWDOWN        Copyright © Patricia Potter. All rights reserved.                CHAPTER FOUR   4:03 p.m.   His chance to escape the gunfighter’s life came almost ten years after his family’s death.  He was caught in an ambush in Montana, where he had gone searching for peace only to wind up [...]

        SHOWDOWN       Copyright © Patricia Potter. All rights reserved.                  CHAPTER THREE  4:02 p.m.             Jared was in Missouri when he made his mistake.  It was late.  He’d had a good night at poker, and his pockets were full of money for once.  He was walking back to the hotel, thinking about [...]

                                            SHOWDOWN       Copyright © Patricia Potter. All rights reserved.         CHAPTER TWO   4:01 p.m.    Little had he known, Jared thought, when he lowered the rifle and allowed that fourth aider to escape, that he’d made a choice that would dog his heels all his adult life and, finally, bring him [...]

     SHOWDOWN Copyright © Patricia Potter. All rights reserved.         CHAPTER ONE Texas, 1875 4:00 p.m. Thursday Afternoon   Jared Walker’s shadow lengthened on the dusty Texas street.  The fingers of his right hand tingled.  They seemed to have a will of their own, those fingers, and they itched toward the Colt. [...]