Pangle

Just hours later, Pangle, driving alone, killed himself and another man in a head-on collision.

Perspectives 2007

The boy had worked over the story in his mind and refined it until it had taken on all the earmarks of a great gun battle during which the boy had fought his way clear but Stobrod and Pangle had been captured and killed.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

He took his Spencer's from the ground and brought the muzzle of it to bear on the space between Stobrod and Pangle.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

Pangle liked that feeling he got from Stobrod's playing and became a fool for the fiddle and for the fiddler.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

When they reached the trail fork, they found the Pangle boy lying alone, face up beneath the poplar.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

He and Pangle had done not much since the raid but make music.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

Stobrod, thinking he dimly remembered the place, stopped to survey it, and when he did Pangle trod on his boot heel.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

He played the run of it a time or two until Pangle had his chord changes down and had spun off a series of quick answering notes, bright and harsh.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

Pangle put his free arm around Stobrod's shoulders as schoolboy companions once did.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

Pangle raised the hat and put it over his face, and when he did the Guard tripped the triggers and wood chips flew from the great poplar trunk where balls struck after passing through the meat of the two men.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003