The Hollow Creek Oath

Synopsis

The man died on a Tuesday in the back of the marshal's office, and what he wanted at the end was not a priest and not a doctor. He wanted somebody to say out loud that his boy would get to an aunt in Kansas. Amos Deane said it. There were two other men in the room and both of them heard him say it. The boy is eleven and does not want to go. The aunt has not answered a letter in four years. And the men who put the hole in his father would very much like to know where he is.

Who this is about

Marshal Amos Deane promised a dying rustler, in front of two witnesses, that he would get the man's boy to an aunt in Kansas.

What goes wrong

The boy does not want to go, the aunt has not answered a letter in four years, and the men who killed the father would like the boy accounted for.

What's at stake

Deane has no jurisdiction outside the county and four hundred miles to cross inside it.

Why it keeps going

Each episode the promise costs him one more thing he had not counted on spending.

Takeaway

A promise is not measured when it is given. It is measured every day afterwards.

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