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The hole was almost as deep as Adam Steele was tall. Reverently he lowered the stiff body of the old man into the bare earth, not looking down into the trench until the body was completely covered. Then he worked furiously to shovel the rest of the dirt onto the grave.

His fury grew as he realized he wouldn’t be able to place a marker on the site. He gazed once again at the still-smoking ruins if the Steele home. Only a few items were worth salvaging. Souvenirs of better peaceful days. But Adam would only take one reminder. An unusual weapon, his father’s Colt Hartford sporting rifle, six-shot revolving percussion, .44 caliber. The barrel was covered with soot, and the rosewood stock was slightly charred. But the action worked smoothly.

A narrow gold plate on the stock was inscribed:

To Benjamin P. Steele,

With gratitude.

- Abraham Lincoln

Now Lincoln and Ben Steele were both dead. Two fine lives extinguished by madness… two burials that marked the beginning of an unending and bloody vengeance trail for Adam Steele. Less