the New Lew

[Seymour Landnau]

My friend Lew finds himself in the cargo hold of a ship bound for England,
home of his new tweeker friends, the two Ns.  He is fiendishly finishing
off his supply of Cyclomite after being found by them, exploded and left to
die.  Lew develops a habit of the new substance both for its visionary
qualities and its precognitive effects: while high he can tell when a
dynamite blast is about to go off.  One day he is handling Dr. O's new
dynamite compounds without gloves, and basically gets dosed for the first
historical time.

Lew meets the Kieselguhr Kid in a bar, and whether it's him or not, they
come to terms.  Lew quits when finds out that his Company White City only
wants him out here in the mountains to appear to be hunting the Anarchists,
long as the clients pay.  But his sympathies are already high for the
Anarchists, once he realizes that their lives working for the Owners are
sometimes more miserable than slavery.

Up in the spirit of the mountains where physical appearances can sometime
be "*actually shifted"* there is growing suspicion the The Kieselguhr Kid
is nobody else but Butch Cassidy, and numerous others.  Who ever it is, The
Kid draws fast.  The dynamite in his vest is so attached that it lights
automatickly on its way out, and the fuses are special superquick-fuses so
that the only thing left of any opposing gunman are his smoking boots...
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