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31. Dead

Jake squirmed his long body in protest. He lay in the middle of the building shed on the floor not far away from the main entrance. He had gagged and bounded again, captured in the cage, which Castigo had pulled out of the prison room to give a good look on the snake.
When the rattlesnake saw Castigo come back the stairs, he hissed loudly.
The fox gave him a disdainfully look and leaned himself against the bars and looked down at him. "Hot girl which you had."
Jake's body tensed. Was that creature kidding or did he really her…
"I think you will be not stupid and keep quiet," Castigo continued calmly. "Or I will make boots of you."
He left the upset rattlesnake and went to a bobcat. The lynx was fat and wore expensive clothes like a grey suit, a yellow blue lustrous shirt under it, grey trousers, grey hat and something like a golden pocket watch in his breast pocket.
"Mister Goldman!" Castigo greeted exaggeratedly and opened his hands welcomingly. "Nice to see you here in my modest little cottage shop."
Mister Goldman didn't give him his hand. Instead, he let them rest in his pockets.
"I'm still upset that I had to come here extra."
"I'm also afraid about that, but it's a way, which was worth it."
He guided him to the bounded captured rattlesnake, which glared at them with hateful eyes.
Castigo waved his hand. "Like I promised. Here is your order."
The tubby lynx narrowed his eyes sceptically and took a closer look.
"Convince yourself."
With these words, Castigo took the keys and opened the cage door. The bobcat hesitated. The fox waved his hand with an inviting look.
"Go in. Don't worry. He is unable to move."
Jake hissed for fury, when the businessperson touched searchingly his face and inspected the rattle gun.
"Seems to be real."
"It's the original, you can be sure."
Jake growled. They behave unresentfully like humans on rattlesnake slaughter market.
"Would you think about it again? Take my money now which I wanted to give you the whole time."
Castigo laughed and took him aside. "Mister Goldman, Sir. We are all gentlemen, aren't we? That's would be unfair against the others."
"And a chance to earn more money, right?" the lynx asked in a peeved tone.
Castigo grimaced theatrically. "Maybe. That's business."
"You know to make business. My offer still holds until the auction begins."
"As you wish. But I don't think I will change my opinion. The highest bidder will be the winner."
Mister Goldman snorted. "We will see."
He left him.
Castigo snorted disgusted. "Conceited fat purse."
He waved his hand and Math came closer. "Make sure that he can't escape," he whispered with dark voice and pointed at Jake. "Don't goof it like Greg."
Math nodded. When Castigo wanted to go away, he held him back. "I forgot, last night, we found a little man, who had found a gold mine. I invited him, maybe he could give us a good offer."
The fox narrowed his eyes. "Is he trustable?"
Math shrugged his shoulders. "Who is trustable in this world?"

"Are you sure, that he will not become suspicious?" Rango asked unsurely while they were riding closer to the meeting place.
"He doesn't know you," Tonca said without worry. "How should he know that you are looking for them?"
"Also true. But otherwise…"
He stopped his roadrunner suddenly. Kinski and Stump who rode behind him, Stump's bottom was more or less fine again by the way, spoke an angry "Hey!"
Kinski stopped and growled. "Why did you stop?"
"Sorry," Rango apologized. "I just thought about something."
"Could you think without to blockade our way?" Stump muttered sullenly.
"No kidding!" Bill complained. "First you wanted to run and now you stuck. Could you make a decision one day?"
Rango shook his head and continued riding.
Cassy moved her roadrunner closer to Rango's and looked at him thoughtfully.
"You're worried, aren't you?"
"I just hope that she is still okay…" He interrupted himself and called ahead: "Maybe we should recapitulate the plan once again."
"Again?" Bill asked bored.
Tonca shrugged his shoulders. "As you wish. Here the plan. We will be there on the auction. While they are busy, Tonca will walk away and search for your girlfriend. If he found her, we will make a little accident and he will lay a little fire."
"With dynamite," Rango sighed.
"Exactly."
"Is there no day without that damn explosive stuff?" Rango thought.
"All will be in panic and we will take the chance to flee."
"How do you want to do that?" Stump asked. "You don't have dynamite with you."
"I found something in the hiding quarter. If I will left the auction, I will take it."
"A risky plan," Cassy said sceptically.
"Do you have a better plan?"
"Not yet at the moment."
Bill stopped and flicked his tongue nervously. They had arrived the hills and rocks.
"I'm smelling something. I think I know that smell."
"Maybe because we are on the right way and you smell the men who were been in Jake's hiding place," Tonca guessed.
"Maybe."
Bill focused his head in a special direction. He narrowed his eyes. "The wind comes from there."
Stump lifted his head. "Uh, maybe an ambush!"
He directed his guns in all directions.
"Calm down, buddy," Kinski said and yawned artificially. "We are invited, did you forget? They have no reason to attack us."
"Oh, yes, you're right."
Stump put his guns away.
"But who is there?" Bill muttered loudly.
"Unimportant," Danny said. "Let them spy. There is no reason to be afraid."
"I don't like that someone spies me," Bill countered and climbed down form his roadrunner.
"Uh, Bill? Where do you want to go?" Rango asked with surprise.
"Moving my legs… damn, give me a break from your stupid questions…. Come out you cursed cowards!"
"Better we follow him," Danny whispered to Tonca. "If he cause a conflict we could correct a misunderstanding.
"Alright."
With these the two geckos left the place, too.
"People, we aren't allowed to waste time!" Rango cried behind the walking away geckos.
"After stop-thinking, running time again," Kinski muttered bored.
The rabbits raised their ears when they hear how Bill cries: "Hands up! Stand up!"
"Sounds he found something."
"More someone."
"Stand up! Get up! Are you deaf?"
"It doesn't sound good. I will take a look."
With these words, Kinski also left his roadrunner.
"Wait for me!" Stump cried and jumped down.
"For me, too!"
"Heavens, how much longer should that go on?" Rango complained when Chorizo disappeared behind some rocks, too.
With deep sighed, Rango left his roadrunner and followed them with big steps. Cassy hesitated. But then she did the same.
With nervous eyes, Rango looked around until he found the others behind few rocks. Kinski and Stump stood there and seemed to crane their necks. Bill was bending about something and Tonca and Danny talked with each other with questioning looks.
"Where are you staring at?" Rango asked and went forward.
He stopped when he saw an unknown person on the stony ground. It was a man, fur on his hands and face, which he couldn't see, clothed in black and grey clothes. What kind of animal was it? A dog, fox or wolf? He couldn't see it. He lay on the belly and didn't move.
Kinski and Stump came closer and looked down at the motionless body.
"Never seen," Kinski muttered.
Bill bent down and sniffed. "One of the gang."
"Why does he lay here?" Rango asked.
Bill didn't reply and rolled him on the back. Now they saw it was a wolf.
Bill shook the shoulders of him. There was no reaction. Stump reached his hand down his hand and touched the arm. After few seconds, he shook his head and looked at Kinski.
"Dead."
"An accident?" Danny asked curiously.
"Nonsense," Bill muttered. "Looks more like a case of punishment."
A shriek let them wince. They turned around and saw how Cassy had covered her mouth.
Rango walked at her and raised his hands calmly. "Madame, I'm sorry, I know, a corpse isn't a pretty sight."
He winced when she began to sway. He jumped forward and held her upper body.
"What's wrong with you?"
She let sank her hands, still staring at the body and whispered with hoarse voice:
"It's my husband."

To be continued...

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Here the next chapter. Enjoy.

31. Dead

Jake squirmed his long body in protest. He lay in the middle of the building shed on the floor not far away from the main entrance. He had gagged and bounded again, captured in the cage, which Castigo had pulled out of the prison room to give a good look on the snake.
When the rattlesnake saw Castigo come back the stairs, he hissed loudly.
The fox gave him a disdainfully look and leaned himself against the bars and looked down at him. "Hot girl which you had."
Jake's body tensed. Was that creature kidding or did he really her…
"I think you will be not stupid and keep quiet," Castigo continued calmly. "Or I will make boots of you."
He left the upset rattlesnake and went to a bobcat. The lynx was fat and wore expensive clothes like a grey suit, a yellow blue lustrous shirt under it, grey trousers, grey hat and something like a golden pocket watch in his breast pocket.
"Mister Goldman!" Castigo greeted exaggeratedly and opened his hands welcomingly. "Nice to see you here in my modest little cottage shop."
Mister Goldman didn't give him his hand. Instead, he let them rest in his pockets.
"I'm still upset that I had to come here extra."
"I'm also afraid about that, but it's a way, which was worth it."
He guided him to the bounded captured rattlesnake, which glared at them with hateful eyes.
Castigo waved his hand. "Like I promised. Here is your order."
The tubby lynx narrowed his eyes sceptically and took a closer look.
"Convince yourself."
With these words, Castigo took the keys and opened the cage door. The bobcat hesitated. The fox waved his hand with an inviting look.
"Go in. Don't worry. He is unable to move."
Jake hissed for fury, when the businessperson touched searchingly his face and inspected the rattle gun.
"Seems to be real."
"It's the original, you can be sure."
Jake growled. They behave unresentfully like humans on rattlesnake slaughter market.
"Would you think about it again? Take my money now which I wanted to give you the whole time."
Castigo laughed and took him aside. "Mister Goldman, Sir. We are all gentlemen, aren't we? That's would be unfair against the others."
"And a chance to earn more money, right?" the lynx asked in a peeved tone.
Castigo grimaced theatrically. "Maybe. That's business."
"You know to make business. My offer still holds until the auction begins."
"As you wish. But I don't think I will change my opinion. The highest bidder will be the winner."
Mister Goldman snorted. "We will see."
He left him.
Castigo snorted disgusted. "Conceited fat purse."
He waved his hand and Math came closer. "Make sure that he can't escape," he whispered with dark voice and pointed at Jake. "Don't goof it like Greg."
Math nodded. When Castigo wanted to go away, he held him back. "I forgot, last night, we found a little man, who had found a gold mine. I invited him, maybe he could give us a good offer."
The fox narrowed his eyes. "Is he trustable?"
Math shrugged his shoulders. "Who is trustable in this world?"

"Are you sure, that he will not become suspicious?" Rango asked unsurely while they were riding closer to the meeting place.
"He doesn't know you," Tonca said without worry. "How should he know that you are looking for them?"
"Also true. But otherwise…"
He stopped his roadrunner suddenly. Kinski and Stump who rode behind him, Stump's bottom was more or less fine again by the way, spoke an angry "Hey!"
Kinski stopped and growled. "Why did you stop?"
"Sorry," Rango apologized. "I just thought about something."
"Could you think without to blockade our way?" Stump muttered sullenly.
"No kidding!" Bill complained. "First you wanted to run and now you stuck. Could you make a decision one day?"
Rango shook his head and continued riding.
Cassy moved her roadrunner closer to Rango's and looked at him thoughtfully.
"You're worried, aren't you?"
"I just hope that she is still okay…" He interrupted himself and called ahead: "Maybe we should recapitulate the plan once again."
"Again?" Bill asked bored.
Tonca shrugged his shoulders. "As you wish. Here the plan. We will be there on the auction. While they are busy, Tonca will walk away and search for your girlfriend. If he found her, we will make a little accident and he will lay a little fire."
"With dynamite," Rango sighed.
"Exactly."
"Is there no day without that damn explosive stuff?" Rango thought.
"All will be in panic and we will take the chance to flee."
"How do you want to do that?" Stump asked. "You don't have dynamite with you."
"I found something in the hiding quarter. If I will left the auction, I will take it."
"A risky plan," Cassy said sceptically.
"Do you have a better plan?"
"Not yet at the moment."
Bill stopped and flicked his tongue nervously. They had arrived the hills and rocks.
"I'm smelling something. I think I know that smell."
"Maybe because we are on the right way and you smell the men who were been in Jake's hiding place," Tonca guessed.
"Maybe."
Bill focused his head in a special direction. He narrowed his eyes. "The wind comes from there."
Stump lifted his head. "Uh, maybe an ambush!"
He directed his guns in all directions.
"Calm down, buddy," Kinski said and yawned artificially. "We are invited, did you forget? They have no reason to attack us."
"Oh, yes, you're right."
Stump put his guns away.
"But who is there?" Bill muttered loudly.
"Unimportant," Danny said. "Let them spy. There is no reason to be afraid."
"I don't like that someone spies me," Bill countered and climbed down form his roadrunner.
"Uh, Bill? Where do you want to go?" Rango asked with surprise.
"Moving my legs… damn, give me a break from your stupid questions…. Come out you cursed cowards!"
"Better we follow him," Danny whispered to Tonca. "If he cause a conflict we could correct a misunderstanding.
"Alright."
With these the two geckos left the place, too.
"People, we aren't allowed to waste time!" Rango cried behind the walking away geckos.
"After stop-thinking, running time again," Kinski muttered bored.
The rabbits raised their ears when they hear how Bill cries: "Hands up! Stand up!"
"Sounds he found something."
"More someone."
"Stand up! Get up! Are you deaf?"
"It doesn't sound good. I will take a look."
With these words, Kinski also left his roadrunner.
"Wait for me!" Stump cried and jumped down.
"For me, too!"
"Heavens, how much longer should that go on?" Rango complained when Chorizo disappeared behind some rocks, too.
With deep sighed, Rango left his roadrunner and followed them with big steps. Cassy hesitated. But then she did the same.
With nervous eyes, Rango looked around until he found the others behind few rocks. Kinski and Stump stood there and seemed to crane their necks. Bill was bending about something and Tonca and Danny talked with each other with questioning looks.
"Where are you staring at?" Rango asked and went forward.
He stopped when he saw an unknown person on the stony ground. It was a man, fur on his hands and face, which he couldn't see, clothed in black and grey clothes. What kind of animal was it? A dog, fox or wolf? He couldn't see it. He lay on the belly and didn't move.
Kinski and Stump came closer and looked down at the motionless body.
"Never seen," Kinski muttered.
Bill bent down and sniffed. "One of the gang."
"Why does he lay here?" Rango asked.
Bill didn't reply and rolled him on the back. Now they saw it was a wolf.
Bill shook the shoulders of him. There was no reaction. Stump reached his hand down his hand and touched the arm. After few seconds, he shook his head and looked at Kinski.
"Dead."
"An accident?" Danny asked curiously.
"Nonsense," Bill muttered. "Looks more like a case of punishment."
A shriek let them wince. They turned around and saw how Cassy had covered her mouth.
Rango walked at her and raised his hands calmly. "Madame, I'm sorry, I know, a corpse isn't a pretty sight."
He winced when she began to sway. He jumped forward and held her upper body.
"What's wrong with you?"
She let sank her hands, still staring at the body and whispered with hoarse voice:
"It's my husband."

To be continued...