Between the Rivers

Sometimes life gives you exactly what you do not want, precisely when you need it most. Gideon Fletcher hadn't been on speaking terms with the future in quite a spell. It was the past that had his ear. It could be that was why, when folks started talking about shortening his future with a rope, he plain did not take much notice.

The sheriff found him guilty of 'willfully'. Willfully anything. On multiple counts.

The Rivers (all four brothers, a father & an uncle by adoption) figured he was guilty of not knowing a good thing when he was hit upside the head with it.

Gideon sort of figured they were all loco.