Chapter 5

As soon as Storm got back out on the street, he saw the general store and thought about what Slim said about his black clothes. He looked down at himself, and then over at the general store across the street. He stepped off the boardwalk and was crossing the street when he saw a woman who was walking toward him. When she saw him, she turned to go another way. Storm stopped his stride and watched her hurry away from him. “What are you afraid of?” he finally called out. When she didn’t answer him, he mumbled, “Rotten stinkin’ females. You’d think I had two heads or somethin’.”