Chapter 34

In the living-room later the General, while his thick fingers toyed with a delicate liqueur glass, related anecdotes of wild days in our own country. “Most folks think that the west was cleaned up sixty or seventy-five years ago,” he said. “But it ain’t so. There was plenty of fun going in Colorado right up to the last days of the century. Yaas, I mind I was in Gunnison and there was a girl there, an actress in the local theatre and a friend of mine, and she was put on trial for half-shooting a fella’s hand off. It…