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- Published on: 2015-12-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .9" w x 6.00" l, .14 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 38 pages
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By Deke Solomon
The Sheriff and His Partner (TS&HP), written by Frank Harris and dated 4 April, 1891, must have started life as a dime novel or as content in some other pulp-fiction venue. Because it is such a short story, it seems odd to me that TS&HP is still treated as a standalone book, a giveaway from either Project Gutenberg or Amazon's Kindle Store.
The Kindle version is just 42 tiny screens, end-to-end. My beloved WordPerfect� counts some 140 words per Kindle screen and 4,161 words overall. The longest sentence in the story is 17 words. The Flesch-Kincaid index rates the story at 3rd grade reading level. (Parents should note that the low rating doesn’t mean TS&HP is kiddie lit. By comparison, Flesch-Kincaid rates Hemingway's fiction at 4th grade level.) In plain English, I’ll say that The Sheriff and His Partner is a bullet-quick read for adults who, having read the story themselves, might not want kiddies to read it at all because the denouement is pretty grizzly.
TS&HP is a bildungsroman, set in the year 1869 on the Kansas frontier. The narrator claims to be Frank Harris in his silly, unfledged youth. He reads law and clerks for a judge named Locock. Their office is in the town of Kiota, Kansas.
The plot is childishly simple: A bad-news pistolero named Tom Williams has a personal beef with Elwood County Sheriff Samuel Johnson, who is also a bad-news pistolero and whose office is in Kiota. Local gossip says that Williams and Johnson were partners in bygone days, somewhere back in Missouri. Partners in what, precisely, is unclear and is therefore moot.
Outlaw Williams is holed up in the town of Osawatomie, ten miles west of Kiota, and is wanted for numerous crimes. His latest offense was to waylay and rob at gunpoint a former, Elwood County judge named Shannon.
Every man in Kiota knows Sheriff Johnson will go to Osawatomie to arrest or kill (as may be) Tom Williams. Sheriff Johnson is popular with folks in Kiota but, gunslinger Williams being who and what he is, nobody in Kiota is certain that Johnson will survive the encounter. Accordingly, Sheriff Johnson and the men of Kiota have a confab in the saloon to figure out who and how many will go with the sheriff to see justice done.
At the confab, whiskey shooters are shot. The talk is terse and serious. Suddenly, in the middle of it all, the law student / narrator appears. A lippy little squirt mistaking himself for a man, Narrator has some opinions and is anxious to impress other men with his good sense. He listens to the talk for a few moments before he lets the crowd know that he doesn't understand why Sheriff Johnson will not man up and do the job personally, by himself. After all, that's what the sheriff gets paid for. Why then should Sheriff Johnson ask others to risk their lives for free?
Narrator then adds offhandedly: "I think it would be cowardly to take two or three against a single man. I said one should go, and I say so still."
Sheriff Johnson gets in Narrator's face and sneers: "Do you? I guess you'd go alone, wouldn't you? to bring Williams in?"
Coolly, Narrator retorts: "If I were paid for it I should."
As the mouthy youngster spoke, Sheriff Johnson's face went white with anger. So angry was Johnson that the law student raised his hands to defend himself, thinking the sheriff was set to reply with his fists.
So immature is Narrator that he cannot understand why everyone in the room is suddenly angry and disgusted with him. Next morning at the law office, he learns that he was taken at his word. Narrator is working at his desk when Sheriff Johnson walks in, hands him a badge and a gun, swears him in as a deputy, orders his new deputy to go to Osawatomie, arrest Tom Williams and bring him back. Then he pays his new deputy, in advance, a handsome fee of $5.25 to do the job. For Narrator's convenience, a horse and buggy wait outside in the street.
Narrator hesitates for a moment before he grasps what's actually happening. Then he understands: he doesn't really have to go after Williams but, because he stuck his trigger finger in his mouth last night, if he doesn't go he will forfeit the respect of every man in Kiota – all of whom are standing around waiting to see what he will do. A fool but no coward, he climbs into the buggy, points the horse at Osawatomie and settles in for the ride. As he rides, he ponders his situation further.
Halfway to Osawatomie, Narrator has an epiphany. There are two paragraphs at this point. In those two paragraphs, Narrator reasons his way through how and why he got into such a mess and what he must now do to get out of it. Readers, of course, are privy to Narrator's thoughts and we thereby arrive at a full, manly understanding of the white male's nineteenth-century, frontier ethos. The Sheriff and His Partner may be pulp fiction, but that two-paragraph passage is a wonderful read.
Events in Osawatomie are anticlimactic and comedic. Having had his epiphany, Narrator now believes he is a man. Too bad his bravado still makes him foolish. He walks into the Osawatomie saloon, pulls a revolver on Williams and tells the gunman he's under arrest. Williams must go to Kiota and face justice.
Narrator's life is saved because Williams, jealous of his fierce reputation, doesn't want it put about that he was so petty mean as to shoot and kill a lippy, punk-ass law student. Williams will not surrender his weapon but sincerely promises not to shoot the 'deputy sheriff.' Instead, the outlaw makes a generous offer. He will get in the buggy and ride with the deputy back to Kiota, there to meet the sheriff. Williams does so because he wants to shoot Sheriff Johnson – his former partner now his sworn enemy – and sees this botched arrest as a good chance to get Sheriff Johnson in front of his gun.
The upshot is that Narrator and Williams arrive in Kiota. There ensues a showdown in which everything gets settled most ricky tick. This writer won't tell who gets killed or how many. Those who want to know how TS&HP plays out will have to get a copy and read it for themselves.
The Sheriff and His Partner is Frank Harris at his imaginative best. It's fast action. It reads like a true adventure. It's free! Download it at work this afternoon and read it on your home-bound commute. There's nobody on the subway you wanted to talk to anyhow.
Solomon sed.
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