Thats one problem you wont see again, he said in a voice again friendly. And dont worry yourselves bout me. Except, that is, unless you dont want to make good on your promise of a reward for getting rid of that snake Sliver Pete. He winked.
The townsfolk were happy to give Preacher Dan the reward. He didnt even collect all of it, only half, leaving the rest for the town church. Nobody ever heard from Sliver Pete again, although it was rumored he hadnt stopped running til hed got to New Mexico, married and become a farmer, never to touch a gun again.
People couldnt stop talking about how a man could be shot six times and rise up as if he hadnt been shot at all. But no one dared ask Preacher Dan to explain it and he left town so it remained a mystery to everyone except me.
You see, I remembered the day I saw the writing on the side of his trunk revealed by a pesky wind. It had said, Dan the Magnificent. Magicians Illusions Great and Small. So Preacher Dan was not a preacher, but a gifted magician. I figure when he dropped Sliver Petes gun at the card table he switched it for one with blanks. The white dove had just been for effect. Here was a man schooled in the ways of human nature and he had done us a great favor while being paid for his services. I thought at that time far be it for me to give away his secrets.
Some say it wasnt a preacher or even a dead man that got up off that dusty road, but an angel of the Lord himself, and in a manner of speaking that might be so.
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