Chapter 2Thomas recognized Leon Stroud as soon as he saw the man. The recent increase of wanted signs littering the Utah territory helped aid his memory, but he double-checked the features against the poster he had liberated from the Salt Lake City depot to be sure. Of course, it would be difficult for Thomas to forget a face like Leon’s, since it had drifted into his memory and his dreams more than once in the past few years.
Thomas hadn’t followed Leon out of the car. He didn’t want to put the other man on the defensive, and he wasn’t looking to make trouble. Even though he was sure Leon would take some efforts not to be found on the train—and he certainly didn’t cross Thomas’s path again—Thomas had no doubt that he would find the other man again. He had once tracked an outlaw from Texa
