California Hit (14 page)

Some wars, somehow, just didn't always seem worth winning.

Bolan finished his packing, and he told the China doll, "It's not that I'm in a rush to get away from you, Mary. It's just that I have this feeling. I've got to travel east, and damn quick."

"Personal business," she quietly suggested.

"Very personal business. Something very important — important like you, only different. Different, Mary."

"I guess we'll never meet again," she decided, sighing.

"Don't count on it." He gave her a solemn wink. "You, uh, square with Barney Gibson?"

She said, "I am. You made his day, soldier. More than that, I guess you made his life."

He slung the satchel over his back, went to the door, then turned about for a last long penetrating look at something very special that had briefly touched his life.

"Okay," he said.

Her face twisted as she replied, "Aren't you going out the window?"

He chuckled and told her, "I come in windows, lady, I don't go out them."

"Listen, tough guy," she said, her voice dropping to a harshly commanding tone, "you can climb in my window any old day... or night. You come see me. You hear?"

He said, "I hear," and he gave her finally, fully, a total smile, and then he went out of there.

Something very important, more important than all the San Franciscos everywhere, was awaiting his attention in a distant eastern city.

No man could truly stand alone... not forever. Only a fool would want to do so.

And if anything had happened to Johnny or Val...

His stomach curled, and he commanded the thought to go away, even knowing that it would not.

If anything had happened to those two... well, it would be a hellfire trail for sure, this time.

It would be a descent and a journey through the hell of all hells, and a lot of other dudes would share that fire with Mack Bolan.

Pittsfield, he quietly sent the word ahead, I'm on my way.

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