The Promise

29. You lied!

"YOU LIED!" Rango shouted. He was so in anger like never before in his life.
"What do you mean?" Bill asked, but Rango saw a hidden smile in his face.
"It isn't under the town, is it?! Your description was a fake! The hiding place is somewhere else, right?"
Bill snorted. "I told you, that I'm not really sure where the place is. Maybe it wasn't the right way, was it?"
Rango breathed loudly and his hands clenched to fists. "You... you... you... I could kill you!"
Bill leaned against the roadrunner and looked at him calmly.
"You would never do that, wouldn't you?" he said, when he saw no gun at Rango's belly.
"WHY?" Rango shouted in the hope to calm down.
"A little revenge for my mistreatment. Nobody is allowed to do violence to me. Mark my words, little pet."
"You damn creature!" Rango ran forward and threw his weight against the Gila-Monster.
Bill fell backwards and both struggled like two little boys.
"Hey! Are you crazy?!" Bill shouted and threw Rango away.
Rango rolled over the ground, but stood up fast again. He ran up to Bill and grabbed his suspenders while Bill tried to climb on his roadrunner.
"You stay here!" Rango cried.
"Get off!" Bill took a big swing backwards with his elbows. Rango jumped up and wanted to grab Bill's face, but instead he grabbed his hat. He lost his balance and stumbled backwards, with the hat in his hands. When Bill realized his hat was gone, he turned around wildly.
"Take your damn dirty hands from my hat! It was a present from my grandfather!"
"Oh really?!"
Rango kneaded his fingers around the bowler hat.
Bill cried out. "No! Don't you dare! I'm warning you! I will kill you! Without hesitation!"
Rango was going to tear the hat.
"Don't do anything so bloody silly!" Bill shouted. "Don't be so stupid! Or you'll be sorry!"
Rango growled. "Tell me where the place is!"
"No... Stop!"
Rango pressed his hands together around Bill's hat and was in danger to crumple it.
"Okay! Okay! You win! But let my hat untouched."
"First the place! Where is it?"
Bill clenched his teeth together, then he surrendered.
"In Beans' fathers' mines," Bill told hastily. "But there is no guarantee. Mayor John assumed this theory, but he never found anything. The mines are dangerous, a real labyrinth and some tunnels are in danger to collapse. Without the numbers and signs you could never find the right way without risk of dying."
Rango narrowed his eyes angrily. "And you wanted to go inside the mines while we are searching the tunnels under town for nothing."
"That was my plan, yes." Bill said voluntary, because Rango still held his hat. "But first I have had to steal the paper," he muttered quietly.
Rango growled and turned around. Bill wanted to follow him. "Hey, what about my hat?"
Rango lifted his right hand. "Keep quiet! I have to think."
Bill hissed angrily, but he kept the distance.
Rango wrinkled his brow and pace up and down.
He reached his other hand into his pocket and took the paper with the symbols.
"Alright," he muttered after a while and turned around.
"We have to go to the mines. Bring me to them."
Bill snorted and crossed his arms. "Never."
Rango narrowed his eyes and held Bill's hat in the air. Bill winced. "Alright! Alright! I will do it!"
"Sounds better," Rango said and whistled through his fingers. Seconds later, his roadrunner came and the chameleon climbed on it.
"And what about your ex girlfriend?" Bill asked mockingly. "Don't know whether you are allowed to enter the mines without her permission."
"She shouldn't come more in danger. It's my problem solely if something goes wrong."
Bill flicked his tongue with disgust. "Very touching."

"That damn creature of a bitch!" Jake cursed, when he saw Bill's empty bed.
"Where are they?" Beans asked.
Mister Owlden scratched his head. "Somewhere else, but not here."
Jake growled loudly. "Somewhere, but I will find this somewhere."
"And he really said the gold would be under town?" Mister Owlden asked.
"Indeed," Beans replied.
Mister Owlden shook his head. "He really had to know that it would be impossible."
Beans looked at him. "So, you think he..."
A sharp hiss interrupted her sentence. "If that fat lizard lied," Jake growled. "I will kill him AND..." He looked at Beans. "I give a damn about your promise to him. Don't dare to stop me."
"I think it's time to hurry up," Beans tried to change the theme. "It is dangerous for them to be outside without safety. But where could they be? If Bill escaped, he could be everywhere."
"Not for me!" Jake cried and slithered outside where he circled around the house to find Bill's spoor.
Beans watched him. "Do you think you could find their trail?"
"I would move the hell, if I don't find that fat lizard."
He darted his tongue in and out above the dusty ground and followed the odor trail.
Beans massaged her forehead. "Alright. First, let's find them, before something bad happens."
She turned around to Mister Owlden. "And maybe you could tell us where the gold is really."
The owl nodded. "Of course, Madame."

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