title: Virgin spring : A Southwest story of romance and adventure
author: G. N. Buffington
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   **4 • KILLING TIME IN ETERNITY**
  
  by
  
  George G. Gilman
  
  Terry Harknett
  
  Spring Acre
  
  Springhead Road
  
  Uplyme
  
  Lyme Regis
  
  Dorset DT7 3RS
  
  01297-445380
  
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   **An EDGE Western -- • -- 83,000 Words**
  
  2
  
  For Eric
  
  Even though he called
  
  Westerns cowboy books!
  
  3
  
   **CHAPTER • 1**
  
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   **THE CITY suited, middle aged and slightly drunk fat man who had gotten off
  the** west bound train two hours ago asked of the pre-occupied bartender: ‘You
  think I ought to have myself another belt of your fine rye whiskey, Buck?’
  
  Buck Segal, who was blond haired and handsome, broad shouldered and narrow
  waisted and looked to be in perfect physical shape for a man in his mid-
  thirties, managed to suppress a sigh as he spread a professionally amiable
  smile across his blue-eyed, broad mouthed, evenly tanned face.
  
  ‘