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THE SKY-LINERS

Chapter1

Everybody in our part of the country knew of
Black Fetchen, so folks just naturally stood
aside when he rode into town with his kinfolk.
The Fetchen land lay up on Sinking Creek,
and it wasn't often a Sackett got over that
way, so we had no truck with one another. We
heard talk of him and his doings--how he'd killed
a stranger over on Caney's Fork, and about a
fair string of shootings and cuttings running back
six or seven years.
He wasn't the only Fetchen who'd worked up
to trouble in that country, or down in the flat land, for
that matter. It was a story told and retold how
Black Fetchen rode down to Tazewell and
taken some kin of his away from the law.
James Black Fetchen his name was, but all
knew him as Black, because the name suited. He was
a dark, handsome man with a bold, hard-shouldered
way about him, as quick with his fists as with a gun. Those
who rode with him, like Tory Fetchen and Colby
Rafin, were the same sort.
Me and Galloway had business over in
Tazewell or we'd never have been around those
parts, not that we feared Black Fetchen, or any
man, but we were newly home from the western lands and
when we went to Tazewell we went to pay off the
last of Pa's debts. Pa had bad luck
several years running and owed honor debts we were
bound to pay, so Galloway and me rode back from
the buffalo plains to settle up.
We had taken off to the western lands two years
before, me twenty-two then and him twenty-one. We