Ault's Heir

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It's May and the river is in flood. Mountain snow melt and torrential rain has plagued the area for a week. Knox Burdette witnesses a murderous attack on a neighbor and Anson Lowell can't let him escape. With no witness the case falls apart. When one murder has been committed a second comes at little cost right? Especially when the witness is a no-account ranch hand. But William Ault lived long enough to press a letter onto Knox and beg him to deliver it to his attorney in Spokane. Knox being an honest man undertakes the task.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Knox is trying to escape the gang when a riverbank collapses under his horse. It is Tinker O'Keefe who discovers him clinging to a log. She effects a rescue of both man and horse and takes them in.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The gang while searching for Knox shows up at Tinker's house making threats. The thing is Tinker's home is a former brothel and she is painted with the same brush. She hides Knox and the next day they make their way to Spokane to meet with the attorney.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>More surprises are in store including to whom William Ault has bequeathed his ranch and the discovery of an independent witness to Ault's murder.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Even so nothing will stop the murderer's urge to kill Knox and Tinker.</span></p>