The Double Rider (Large Print)

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Ned Rippons horse, Baldy, is stolen in the desert, leaving Rippon afoot and in dire straits. He tracks the thief and finds he is Tom Palding, a man whom he vaguely resembles. Palding offers Rippon $500 to impersonate him for five days and find out why a man named Charles Barrett has summoned him. Twenty years before Palding had killed Sam Barrett. Is Barrett willing to call off his familys enmity to Tom Palding? The impersonation works and Rippon discovers that Barrett claims he wants to buy the Palding Ranch. Jeremy Barrett, a lion of a man, is sympathetic to Palding and suspects he has been summoned by Charles Barrett for a different reason. Cousin Mary Barrett, Sams mother, a fierce old woman who wants vengeance, Charles Barrett, and Charles Barretts three sons all dispute Jeremys view of the matter, but it is obvious to Rippon that without Jeremy Barretts protection, hell be lucky to escape with his life. And this is just the first day ...