Hello, well, the story comes to his end soon. Enjoy the last few chapters. :)


8. Early in the morning

Rango counted minutes until they reached the area of the old mines in the west site of Beans's land, or what was own from her father. The moon was shining brightly and it wasn't difficult for both lizards to find the way. Before they reached the big rocks, they stopped their roadrunners, climbed down and walked the rest of the way by foot. Rango got a bad feeling in his stomach. What if he was wrong and Bill was on another place? And what if it was already too late?

When he was thinking what he could write on Bill's grave stone, Beans came to a hold and looked at the mine mountains, which soared like threatening black giants.

"Alright," Rango said. "And where is tunnel 5?"

Beans pointed into a special direction in the stone wall.

"We have to walk through a tube."

Rango winced when the female lizard unlocked her rifle. "Let's go."

"Yes, that's what I wanted to say, too," Rango added and drew his revolver. Just to be sure.


"Somebody was been here."

Beans bent down and picked up wooden boards from the ground. "I nailed up the entrance. Someone had broken it."

Rango stretched his head. "In this case, it was Bill or somebody else."

Beans sniffed. "I'm smelling fire."

Rango took a deep breath. "Indeed. A campfire."

Suddenly both winced. Footsteps echoed through the metal tube.

Quickly they left the place and hid themselves behind a rock near the entrance.

No long time and the shadow of a man with hat and clothes appeared. They couldn't see whether it was a mammal, a reptile or a bird. The man had drawn his hat deep into his face. In addition, he turned his back at them, lighted a cigarette and threw the matchstick on the floor.

Rango narrowed his eyes annoyed that a bastard used the area of his girlfriend as a rubbish dump.

"What now?" Beans whispered.

Rango rubbed his chin. "How good can you act?"


The man turned around immediately when he was hearing footsteps and drew his revolver.

"Who's there?"

A girl in dark dress lifted her hands quickly.

"Who are you?" she asked worried. "This area is part of my land, mister."

"Oh, do tell?" The man grinned and came a little closer.

Now Beans could realize it was a thin rodent. Still the cigarette in his mouth. The female circled around him and came to a hold.

"Would you do me a favor and disappear, mister?" she asked with thin voice.

The rodent clicked with his tongue. "Oh, why so fast? You could keep company with one of our guests."

He didn't get around to saying the next sentence. In next second, he saw stars only and darkness.

"I hope it wasn't too hard," Rango muttered and looked at the prostrated guy.

"I don't think so," Beans calmed him down after he had controlled the pulse. "I'm sure he will come back to consciousness very soon."

Rango nodded and put away the gun with that he hit the man.

"Well, I'm curious how much more visitor we will meet inside."

"Me, too," Beans added and together they walked through the tube.

"There is one point I don't understand," Beans said quietly. "If Bill was been here, why did he come to town?"

Rango shrugged the shoulders. "I don't know, Beans. Maybe after he had been here, they haunted him and wanted to hide in town, who knows. Quiet."

They had reached the end of the tube. From here they could overlook the main part of the mine area, which was surrounded with high rocks. Bridges and wooden sidewalks crossed the place and on a stony platform, there burned a campfire.

Around the fire, five men were sitting there and changed some words from time to time.

The lizards looked at each other. Beans waved his hand at him and guided him along a way where he could come closer without that someone seeing them.

On the last few meters, they climbed up a ladder and no long and they could see that a man came out from the tunnel. He came up to a man, a desert rabbit, next to the campfire and sat down.

Few seconds, there was silence.

"And?" the man asked who seemed to wait for the other man. "Is he dead?"

The man, who was a lizard, shook his head. "Not yet. I give him few hours."

The other man shrugged his shoulders. "As he wishes. I don't care. We have much more important things to do. What about the search in tunnel 5?"

"Jim and John were here over 30 minutes ago," a desert mouse said. "Maybe they will be back to give us some news."

"I hope so," the desert rabbit said. "I'm angry enough that the Gila monster wanted to make troubles to us. But this problem seems to solve itself soon."

Rango and Beans didn't need more information to know that they were on the right place.

"We have to lure them away from the cave," Rango muttered.

He looked at Beans.

"All at once?" she asked. "How do you want to do it?"

"Did your father store dynamite here?"


The first sign of the early dawning appeared on the sky. The mine area lay calm and peaceful in the mine valley. Suddenly a loud deafening explosion quaked the air.

The men who were sitting on the fire, jumped up with a start.

"What the hell have you done?!" the desert rabbit asked with rage.

"We don't…"

"Don't talk rubbish!" he cut the words of his companion and unlocked his gun. Then he ran with the others to the explosion place.


"Are you really sure what are you doing?" Rango asked. He didn't like to see how a nice girl like Beans plied with dynamite.

The girl gave him an angry look and Rango closed his mouth again.

Together they watched how the bandits were running over a bridge. When the last one crossed it, Beans lighted the next fuse. And no long time and the bridge exploded in a cloud of smoke.

Rango took his hat and waved away the dust. "I hope we didn't wake up the dead men in the tunnels."

Beans shrugged her shoulders. "Never mind. We have no much time. We destroyed the bridges for the short way, but they can still use other side bridges."

Rango nodded. "Alright, let's go."