Pistols For Nobody

Squire Huckleroy told the jury that Clavering and Tebow, both law scholars together, hadn’t been on kindliest terms because both of them wanted to court Squire Huckleroy’s blue-eyed daughter. And not only was Clavering now dead, but broken open was a desk drawer where only Squire Huckleroy and Clavering and Tebow knew lay six hundred gold dollars in a long green purse.

This fine historical mystery,...