Being the gentleman that he was, Rupert Lessur paid Antonio Gillardi for the twenty-five dollar funeral and Tom Bixby for the five dollar lettered marker with only Quentin Cord’s name and date of death inscribed. Nobody knew or cared when Cord was born—or if the coffin was comfortable.
The thirty dollars was far less than Lessur had agreed to pay Cord if the job had been executed, but Lessur would have been much happier spending the agreed upon fee and being rid of Ike Silver.
First Milo Sebastian had double-crossed him, then Quentin Cord had disappointed him; still, Rupert Lessur counted on the third and most important part of his plan, which would ignite the Territory and eliminate competition . . . along with Ike Silver.