Through the mire affecting his mind, Braxton was aware of something firm and slippery passing
over his body, a brief glimpse of bulbous eyes glimmering ebony in the candlelight, and a rubbery
countenance painted onto a neckless head. The Rees' party have been journeying west for weeks when they encounter Seymour Coleridge.
The cowboy is stranded in the desert, his off-kilter wagon resting crestfallen on its broken wheel.
Little...