Elevated Noon: A Nanoplay

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Characters:

      Marshall Phil Kane
      Deputy Marshal Dario Pell

Deputy Pell: Gonzalez and his men will be here any minute, Marshall.  [The bell in the church tower tolls once.]  What are you aimin’ to do?

Marshall Kane:  The stakes are heavy, Pell, you know that, as light as one might try to make them seem.  [The bell tolls a second time.]

Deputy Pell:  He’s a killer, Marshall, one of the best shots in the Territories, an’ he’s got an old score to settle.

Marshall Kane:  Yeah, well I figger he won’t be expecting a gun barrel-full of satire and other literary techniques.  [The bell tolls a third time.]  It’s Horatian that got him convicted, it’ll be Juvenalian puts him away once and for all …