Night of the Spirits               

by sloanranger

Part  3

Angus shivered. A superstitious man, the thought of Jeb Crayton coming back to haunt him was a real source of fear. And considering the state his mind was usually in from his drinking, seeing spirits was entirely within his realm of possibility. Jeb had almost scared the water out of him and Angus suddenly felt the need of liquid fortification.

He finished his leave taking with Jeb and started out but as he got to the door, the old man with his weakening breath cautioned him again.

"Don't forget what I said, Angus."

"No, no I won't, Cray."

The old man died that night and a week later, when Crayton's dog Joe, followed his master into the Great Beyond, Missus Crayton sent for Angus at sundown. She put it upon the drunken man to bury Joe next to Jeb.

"I'm not rightly sure what the Elders'd say Angus, about letting a man's dog be buried beside him. Best all around not to know I guess. Can't say no to ye, if'n you don't ask."

(To be continued).