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    Episode 9: Calum's Justice
    Episode 9: Calum's Justice
    Episode 9: Calum's Justice
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    Episode 9: Calum's Justice

    By Leigh Barker

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    Clan: Season 2, Episode 9. Calum’s Justice

    A Bitesize 1-hour Read.

    The storekeeper has murdered Magdalene’s little brother, Robbie, out of spite and Calum sets out to bring him to justice – frontier style. He knows there are men waiting for him at the trading post. He has never run from a fight and won’t run now.

    Before the night is over, either the murderer or Calum will be dead.

    At this moment the company of French Dragoon’s racing to intercept the English advance arrives at the trading post. Two-hundred elite cavalrymen ready and eager to fight.

    If Calum and his friends are to survive, he will need all his wits, all his experience... and Magdalene.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeigh Barker
    Release dateAug 19, 2015
    ISBN9781310493409
    Episode 9: Calum's Justice
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    Leigh Barker

    Leigh was born in Dudley in the middle of England. He has been a merchant seaman, a (useless) electronics salesman, a programmer, and a business analyst. And now he is a full-time writer, but that doesn't make him a bad person.He is presently writing 4 series:Clan, following the adventures of Calum Maclean as he tries to avoid the Bonnie Prince but still protect his beloved Highlands.The Hellfire Legacy Series follows US Marine Master Sergeant Ethan Gill and his team as they take on the jobs too hot for other special forces. They go where they're sent; South America, Middle East, Korea, but their most dangerous missions are on US soil.Volume #1: A Whisper of ArmageddonVolume #2: The Hellfire LegacyVolume #3: The Orpheus DirectiveEden, a three-volume series -Trinity is at war with Lucid, the son of Lucifer, and he will do whatever it takes to win. The Archangel Gabriel has an army but he needs more. He needs heroes, but they are few and far between. Which is why he gets Dylan and co. Not too much luck in Heaven then.Volume #1: Eden's Last HeroVolume #2: WinterwoodVolume #3: Requiem for Eden.Soldiers is set in 1914 and follows John Regret and his 12-man squad on their suicidal mission to find and destroy the German howitzer nicknamed Big Bertha. Find it before it drops it's thousand-pound shells on the allied army retreating across France. A seemingly hopeless mission that just cannot fail.Other occasional series include:Anarchy, the 'completely true' stories of men doing what men do when there's nobody to keep them in check. Create mayhem and behave like monkeys on speed.Coffee Break Reads - each issue has 5 stories short enough to read while taking a break from life. A mix of adventure, love, disaster, and fun. All with one thing in common; for a moment they transport the reader to another world.Episode 1 of each Season is free and can be picked up with other free books at:https://leighwbarker.com/my-library/Just copy the link above and paste it into your browser and you're there...

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      Episode 9 - Leigh Barker

      Clan

      (Season 2)

      (Episode 9)

      Calum's Justice

      Copyright 2015 Leigh Barker

      Published by Leigh Barker at Smashwords

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      ISBN: 9781310493409

      Calum’s Justice

      Calum put his pistol into his belt and checked his pouch to make sure he had dry powder and shot; then he nodded to John and walked out of the camp.

      John cradled Magdalene against his shoulder and watched him go. The man who’d killed her little brother was going to die, he had no doubt about that. He just hoped his friend’s anger didn’t get him killed too.

      He would be back at his trading post, this storekeeper who butchered little children. Calum walked down the trail that was still littered with the bloody corpses of the trappers who thought they were going to get rich. Instead they just got dead.

      He reached the top of the steep hill leading down to the trading post and stopped. It was a little past two in the morning, but the moon was full and lit the buildings and the clearing with a flat pale light.

      The place appeared to be deserted, but he knew it wasn’t. The storekeeper wouldn’t run away and leave his wares unguarded for any passing thief to have. He was not the type. No, he would be waiting. Armed. He would try to murder him from hiding.

      So be it.

      Calum walked down the long hill, in the middle of the widening trail. Illuminated by the moonlight. The storekeeper was a coward, he’d showed that when he’d run away, leaving his men to die, but Calum couldn’t assume that because he was a coward, he couldn’t shoot. To do so would be stupid. Suicidally stupid.

      He walked through the gap in the thorn fence and into the clearing in front of the store. Forty yards. A marksman could make that shot. But not at night, even in moonlight. And it would give away his position, in whatever hole he was hiding. He would wait.

      Calum glanced up to his right. The night clouds were rolling slowly towards the moon. A minute, m’be two. He searched the darkness around the store, the barn, the corral where the settler’s wagon stood in the far corner, its canvas tied shut for the night. There was no movement anywhere, except the sound of shuffling hooves from the mules in the corral. They were at ease, so there was no hidden assassin near them. The barn doors were wide open with its interior ink-black against the brightly lit sand. A man could be standing three feet from the entrance and be completely hidden. He watched the gaping black hole for a second, then let it go. He couldn’t double-guess himself. What would happen would happen in its own time. There was always a rhythm to such things. And it was too soon yet. Ambushers would be steeling themselves. Waiting for a certain kill. Knowing that to move too early would turn the murder into a fight, and

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