A Killing in Abilene
Suspense · December 14, 1950 · 29 min · 3,845 words
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And that afternoon it's on Pleasant Valley a handful of buildings desolate and huddled in the cold shadows of the mums around. It's all dark. No man appeared as I rode through the town. Only a dog changed.
And he from the safe distance. Then it was quiet. About a quarter of a mile beyond an easy rise, I saw what had happened to the people of the town. There were maybe 60 or 70 standing in a circle.
And as I got closer, I saw they were gathered around two men, two men who were digging. They put us as a look on the faces of the people standing there, even the kids peeking from behind skirts and trousers.
And it was something I had seen before. It wasn't a good look. It was the look some people had had two years before an abilene, when we discovered my brother's body. In just a moment, Mr. Alan Ladd and the first act of killing an abilene.
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