World of Steam ch24Chapter 24The desert was hot and unforgiving, but that was the way they liked it. Sure, his partner complained- hourly- but still, they were free. They didn't have to work themselves to death in the mines, or spend the winters drowning in whiskey while they waited for the next cattle train to need riders. Out in the desert no one ever bothered them. They lived as they pleased-and happily too. He fancied himself like Robin Hood, robbing the rich to feed the poor. But lately, things had not been so happy. The local inhabitants, especially the poor, had been coming up missing. He hadn't been worried until one of the men who always re