No Surprises in the West

(Dual protagonists) (No golden finger) (No time travel) (Slow-burning text) Johnson Beale was going to be hanged. The whole town was waiting to see him kick. Walker, the slant-eyed bounty hunter, came all the way just to make sure he could still breathe. No one knows why. The noose has been greased with pig fat and the executioner is in place. In the heat wave, someone started counting down. No one knows why the two men were chained together. No one cares either.