标题: 《The Devil You Don't》作者： - Elizabeth Bear【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-11-6 11:21 标题: 《The Devil You Don't》作者： - Elizabeth Bear【EPUB】 The Devil You Don't Elizabeth Bear The stranger's wide-brimmed hat a cast a darkness across his face that the slanting sun could not relieve. He forked a dust-dun gelding as if he slept there, his big, spare frame draped in a worn poncho that might once have been black, his shadow spreading ragged black wings over the earth behind him and the flanks of his pale dappled mount. The gelding's trudging feet raised yellow puffs of dust from the hardpan between the sagebrush; perfectly round, they tasted of fear. No-one stepped into the street to meet him. A curious hush descended over our little town, which squatted on the edge of the desert like a sunbaked lizard on a rock. I didn't go out to meet him, either; I was already strolling down Main Street's clapboard sidewalk in my severe rust-and-grey dress, an open parasol shading my head. I wore a blued-steel, ivory-handed eight-shooter strapped to my hip and a derringer tucked into my corset, but my ancient and powerful sword was hidden under the floor of a little three-room house on the outskirts of town. It didn't suit the times. Following my Sunday evening habit, I was on my way to dinner at the Ivory