Immaculate White Smoke

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I am a retired man due to a heart condition but life without a reason is no life at all.  I

 still find time for my family and I still have a mind so I decided to write a book. 

"Immaculate White Smoke" may be considered an old man's imagination run wild.  I

like to think of it as a modern day parable.  I know that life is a constant battle of

good versus evil.  I am rooting for good.  I was thrilled when PublishAmerica

decided to publish my book.  I have limited resources to promote with so I have to

use every dollar as wisely as I can but the people who have read my book seemed to

enjoy it.  Many have even said it should be made into a movie.  It is a mixture of

comedy, spiritual insight and suspense.  PublishAmerica chose to call it an

inspirational novel.  I can live with that.  One lady who read my book even went so

 far as to say, "You are a romantic, aren't you?"

I guess I am.  This is a wonderful gift to give to someone who sees life as dark and

dreary.  It starts out rather slap-happy and rather funny,but soon seems hopeless. 

Without giving too much away, I would say it runs from frustration to comedy to a

source of hope.

(Or is it the other way around?.......)Hmmmmm!

I truly hope you will purchase Immaculate White Smoke and invite you review it.

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God Bless,

Lew Duffey

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"Immaculate White Smoke"

"That's your plan?" Andorra said in disbelief.  "That's how we get away?"  Now her face reflected a mixture of misgiving and maybe a little anger.  She was beginning to think that Arty was losing it.  He had never come up with such a hair-brained idea before.

      "That's it!" he affirmed.  She had her second thoughts about what anyone would say about a woman riding out alone but she didn't argue with him.  She knew she didn't have time.  They didn't wait for it to get dark.  They went to their wagon and rode all night long.  It gave them a lead on the posse but everyone including Tom Drake saw them together the night before in the town saloon.  Even as they were leaving town Drake realized where he remembered those brown eyes from. 

      The sheriff soon came and freed the banker.  Then he rounded up a posse.  One of the town people saw a beautiful girl with fiery red hair, wearing a long blue dress as she drove out of town alone.  This was truly something that a woman didn't do in that town at that time in history.  The danger of being robbed or worse was too great.  That along with the fact that the banker realized those brown eyes belonged to Arty left no question in anyone's mind that Arty was hiding in the wagon.  Everyone remembered the couple from the saloon.  This was enough to help the sheriff decide that it was indeed Arty who robbed the bank and she was an accomplice. 

      To say the least, Artys’ plan was not well thought out.  Andorra's misgivings were well founded because the sheriff figured it was Andorra in the wagon.  He surmised that if Arty wasn't with her he would be meeting her somewhere on the road, probably riding a horse he stole somewhere. 

      .  Of course there was always the possibility that he was in the wagon with her but nobody saw him.  They found the wagon tracks and followed. 

      Arty overlooked the fact that the sheriff would be there to see why Drake didn't come to his office.  This was indeed an oversight on his part, probably because nobody had robbed the bank and the Banker always left alone.  Arty hadn't thought to check and see where he went to each day after closing the bank.  Because of this mistake their lead was a short one.  It took a while to get all the men together but the sheriff didn't wait for daybreak.  They rode all night long.  Soon the posse was riding up behind the two fugitives.

      "Arty, what do I do?" Andorra squealed.  His answer of course was to out run them.  Arty pulled out his forty five and began shooting at the posse but this was not the easiest way to hit targets which were themselves moving because of the fact that the wagon was bumping around on that old dirt rode.  

      The challenge of hitting anyone he shot at was also made harder since it was dawn they were riding away from the sunrise.  Arty was forced to fire right into the blinding light of the early morning sun.  It was not only extremely hard to hit men on horseback but even harder to tell if he actually was hitting anyone.  Still he knew if he kept shooting it would serve as a diversion.  One that might slow the posse down so he kept firing on them.  In spite of this, the posse kept closing in.  Suddenly the wagon hit a rock in the road causing Andorra to lose control while taking a sharp turn.   Arty put his gun away, climbed over the seat, took the reigns and regained control of the wagon.  Then he urged the horses to run faster.  The road was winding but Arty was determined to pass the next turn ahead knowing that running down the hill on the other side would give the horses a break and allow them more speed. 

      "Throw things," he shouted.  Andorra started throwing anything she could reach from the back of the wagon, hoping to thereby distract the horsemen and give the two a better chance of outrunning them.  They would have gotten away clean but when they came up on that sharp turn they both heard something snap.  The horses made the turn almost taking Arty with them but the wagon kept going straight.  After freeing his hands from the reigns which left him hanging on to the front end of the wagon Arty climbed back into the seat.  He fought his way back to where she was and reached for Andorra.  This was an act of love on his part.  One that she would remember for eternity.

      "Jump," Arty hollered as he tried to grab her.   That's when they hit another hard bump, throwing them both down in the back of the wagon as it flew over the cliff.

      Then everything became abstract for both as they saw the sky, then the ground and all went black. They didn't remember the wagon rolling down the hill over the cliff and into the swift moving current of a river below. 

      The sheriff conducted an extensive search but those saddlebags were never found.  The mangled bodies of the two were taken back to town for a pauper’s burial.   

      While searching the riverbank where the two had been dumped into the muddy water someone came across the book that Andorra had been reading but they didn't know for sure that it was hers.

       There had been many stories told about where the money went but nobody knew for sure.  Some, who were inspired by the fact that the book was there, said Satan himself came to take the money away.

      Sam was sweating as he looked up from the book.  It was hot in that attic but he felt compelled to stay there.  He went and opened all the windows.  Then he took the broom and swept the floor and threw the dust he had collected out one of the open windows.

      As he worked his mind was full of images.  He could identify with Artys ability to make Andorra quiver with gentle touches.  He loved the warmth of holding Julia close to him­self.  What he didn't identify with was a man who could steal to live.  Sam had always been a hard worker.    

      He then went downstairs and got a blanket, brought it up to the attic and spread it out on the floor to lie on.  Having done so, he began once more to read aloud.

CHAPTER 3 (The Pulpier Burial/Mordrids Arrival)

      Andorra remembered leaping out of the wagon with Arty although she didn't remember being thrown back onto it again as it flew over the cliff.  But that's what happened.  She thought she remembered the sound of Artys wail but was unaware that they had fallen down over the cliff.  She didn't remember the speed at which the ground came toward her.  Everything was as if she were having an epileptic fit of some kind. 

      Artys last memories were the pain of hitting the stone ground below and then, nothing more. 

      In what seemed to be an instant they both found themselves standing beside their own bodies in the undertakers’ office.  Andorra didn't know how she got there but she and Arty were suddenly watching over the undertaker as he went about his duties. 

      Arty reached out and tried to touch his own flesh but his hand went right through.  The expression on his face had already been one of absolute fear.

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