I DONt KNO t la bes all t muology.

        tools t es into our o too. Not t you    go back. Or t    youd even    to. e used to orola ties sometimes to just folloill like ts. .44-40. If t    stop ter take off    runnin. I like ter model 97. I like it t its got a    like    o    ty on a gun. Of course some t cruiser of mine    is seven years old. Its got t. You t get t engine no more. I drove one of    t    outrun a fatman. I told t Id stick    I     aint al it aint alher.

        t kno it ever so often. I t say as I     out altoget aint someto o see again. to    ness. t really ougo be o. I believe t.

        You remember certain t a t. People didnt knoo wear.

        t in tsleeves and t kindly bot sure I could tell    you why.

        Still to knoo do and t surprised me. Most of em I knoion before.    ain around ttin slumped over and people just got up and filed out.

        Like out of c just seemed peculiar. ell it     unusual day I ever spent.

        Quite a fe believe in it. Even t    oime. You see somebody ever day sometimes    for years and t man do o death.

        ell. tll take some of t of just about anybody. I dont care w is.

        And of course some of t very brigt told me about    one ered to and e    meal and , ever        e time to go and Pickett        and told    for o say about    t. Pickett didher.

        I never o kill nobody and I am very glad of t fact. Some of time s even carry a firearm. A lot of folks find t o believe but its a fact. Jim    Scarbs ton Boykins    o    timers. Never missed    a co do so. time    t tered do    feel it. Nigger rop ty    knowed everbodys py by .

        Its a odd to t it. tunities for abuse are just    about everexas State stitution for bein a    s a oy la a job s put upon    you and you are t laell me if ts    peculiar or not. Because I say t it is. Does it y pert of time. It    takes very little to good people. Very little. And bad people t be gover    all. Or if t.

        tO Fort Sto at quarter to nine and Moss stood and got    case out of t and    stood looking do her.

        Do on a airpla you uhe jail.

        My mama didnt raise no ignorant children.

        o call me.

        Ill call you in a few days.

        All right.

        You take care.

        I got a bad feelin, Llewelyn.

        ell, I got a good one. So t to bala.

        I hope so.

        I t call you except from a payphone.

        I kno. Call me.

        I     everthing.

        Llewelyn?

        .

        Nothin.

        is it.

        o say it. You take care. Llewelyn? .

        Dont    nobody. You hear?

        ood t makin no promises, he said.

        ts    .

        BELL    forkful of o he ph.

        again. Sarted to pus    it, he said.

        All right.

        in? e never eat te.

        Dont be cussin, she said.

        he phone. Sheriff Bell, he said.

        ened for a    forty minutes. Just leave ts on on your unit.

        o    and picked up t it in    this    side of Lozier yon.

        do you make of t?

        he shook his head.

        e.    of h me, he said.

        Let me get my coat.

        t te and drove over ttleguard and pulled up be. endell he window.

        Its about a    follow me.

        I    see it.

        Yessir. It    i    from the road.

        ttle    out and stood looking at it. You could feel t    on your face. Bell came around and opeook     out and stood    of ruck parked a    anding turn and said Sheriff.

        e could ht weeners, she said.

        Yeah. Marshmallers.

        You    t.

        No, you . Did you all see anything?

        No sir. Just the fire.

        Didnt pass nobody or nothin?

        No sir.

        Does t look to you like about a 77 Ford, endell?

        It could be.

        Id say it is.

        as t he old boy was drivin?

        Yeaes.

        It     Sheriff.

        It surely .

        fire to it?

        I dont know.

        eurned and spat. asnt    Dallas I dont    re, ?

        Bell s    t thing from his mind.

        In t to torbert    back yet.

        y and Bell sent eo get     on taring at s.    t ime. the mobile and called endell.

        ?

        Just past Sanderson yon.

        turn around and e back.

        All rig about torbert?

        Call ell o just set tig ernoon.

        Yessir.

        Go to t to truck from Loretta and railer.

        Saddle my tas and load and Ill see you out t a hour.

        Yessir.

        up and    doo che jail.

        te and closed it again and drove do a     and parked. endell unlatcrailer doors a. Bell    took ton, he said.

        You sure?

        Oo Lorettas ell y    to be ty t was aboard him.

        ion rifles    and so t down. You ready? he said.

        tracks but you    still see     ires.

        to t    a blaed hulk.

        You es, endell said.

        I lied about tires though.

        .

        I said till be burnin.

        t in ar, ted at time to time. You    tell    tracks from t ones,    s.

        See track is? Like you    just see far enougo duck t of you. Or you mig on a rock like t right yonder.

        In a sandos tire tread in back as    time.

        You    see tripes real clear. rips    each way, Id say.

        endell sat .

        o t do you re it is o find    down here?

        I dont knoirrup and stood easily up into t ttle    kno say as Im muco it.

        ruck t and studied it and t. Both doors were open.

        Somebodys pried tion plate off the door, he said.

        the frame.

        Yea ts .

        I kno truck.

        I do too.

        endell leaned and patted the boys name is Moss.

        Yep.

        Bell rode back around trud turo t endell. You know w?

        No sir.

        he.

        I believe he is.

        t looking at truck. I    td be a curious t it.

        Pretty curious.

        Bell looked doo some real mischief here.

        I hear you, Sheriff.

        You this boys a doperunner?

        I dont kno of t it.

        I    eits go do of this mess.

        to ters uprig dead doy oo.

        t topped and got doepped nervously.

        Lets take t yonder a    o see this.

        Yessir.

        orucks.

        t been dead all t long, he said.

        hey from?

        Dallas.

        ol ted and leaned on ted,    ty off t pistol. Bot bethe eyes.

        t have a gun?

        Killer could of took it. Or    not of had one.

        Bad o go to a gunfight.

        Bad way.

        trucks. tches are bloody as hogs, endell said.

        Bell gla him.

        Yea to be careful about cussin the dead.

        I    t t no lu it.

        Its just a bunexi drugrunners.

        t now.

        I aint sure w youre sayin.

        Im just sayin t hey are now is dead.

        Ill o sleep on t.

        tilted for and looked in t    to t and o t. ts been some of t old    mexi brohis rig.

        Long gone no it.

        Long gone.

        endell squatted and studied t looks like t somebody cut into one of t was    inside.

        Could of been cy. Gettin ready to trade.

        t trade. t eacher.

        Bell nodded.

        t not of even been no money.

        ts possible.

        But you dont believe it.

        Bell t about it. No, .

        t here.

        Yes, Bell said. At least t.

        back. tizens been s betoo.

        Yep.

        truck. Bell pointed.

        ts been a macraight runs yonder.

        Id say it    to?

        Its probably one of the grass yonder.

        Bell aken out    across    of t tamped    in the base.

        calibers you got there, Sheriff?

        Nine millimeter. A couple of .45 ACPs.

        o tepped bad picked up    against tgun by t.

        You them holes are big enough?

        I dont t. More likely number four buck.

        More buck for your bang.

        You could put it t    to    out a alley ts a pretty good o go.

        endell looked over the caldera. ell, he said. Somebodys walked away from here.

        Id say they have.

        es aint been at them?

        Bell s kno a Mexi.

        t Mexi.

        ell, ts true.

        It must of sounded like Vietnam out here.

        Vietnam, the sheriff said.

        t betrucks. Bell picked up a fe    tic speedloader. ood and    looked over tell you w, he said.

        tell me.

        It dont mud to reason t t man never even got .

        I .

        t ride up     fn a little.

        e    do t.

        you tell me ed    here?

        I got no idea.

        o t Bell just sat    time.

        are you thinkin, Sheriff?

        t doo udied the grass.

        e got anotion here Sheriff?

        No, I believe tural causes.

        Natural causes?

        Natural to the line of work hes in.

        got a gun.

        No.

        endell leaned and spat. Somebodys been here before us.

        Id say so.

        You the money?

        Id say t.

        So ill aint found t man, have we?

        Bell didnt ans over try.

        Its a mess, aint it Sheriff?

        If it aint itll do till a mess gets here.

        t t Mosss truck.

        So w? endell said.

        I do not know.

        I ake it s is pretty .

        tty high, he said.

        to to endell on to trud    the horses.

        You be sure and rap on tcta.

        I    to give he keys anyways.

        ty dont pay o use her horse.

        I hear you.

        orbert on to get you,    set tight.

        of Lamars office tape ill strung across torbert ting on teps.    up and    to the car.

        You all right? Bell said.

        Yessir.

        heres Sheriff Lamar?

        on a call.

        t toold ty about torbert    listened in sileer a    from Austin.

        do they say.

        Not mug.

        h?

        t know.

        t know?

        No sir.

        kno    wound.

        Yessir. tted t.

        Freely admitted?

        Yessir.

        ell orbert?

        t    looked to be a large caliber bullet    said ed to a distance of approximately tal lobe of t t t no bullet to    be found.

        Said wound.

        Yessir.

        Bell pulled out onto terstate. eering w y.

        youre sayin dont make no seorbert.

        I told em t.

        to whey responded?

        t respond not FedEx. X-rays a in your office by in the mornin.

        ter a    said: t acles, aint it Sheriff.

        Yes it is.

        altogether?

        Good question. I aint sure I even ted. Eigy haskins.

        torbert studied try out these people? he said.

        I dont knoo say to deal o deal lin cattle. No I dont knos true no more. Im like you. I aint sure    knoo do about em even. If you killed em    all to build a annex on to hell.

        Co t Aire sly before noon and parked just belorailer and s off t out and    yard and    climbed teps and tapped at ted. tapped again.

        urned and stood o trailer and studied ttle park. Not a dog. urned and put    to t out t steel plunger of ttlegun and ope in    and s the door behind him.

        ood, tys revolver in co t into t door open. op dresser dra again.    t and    pulled    over it and    to t.

        or and took out a carton of milk and ope and smelled it    and drank. ood ton ihe window.

        ton ba tor and s the door.

        into t on tly good ty-one    incelevision on table.    he dead gray s.

        t back do t.    tpocket and t out.

        of t in. Yessir, the woman said.

        Im looking for Llewelyn Moss.

        Sudied o railer?

        Yes I did.

        ell Id say     to leave a message?

        here does he work?

        Sir I aint at liberty to give out no information about our residents.

        C ttle plyhe woman.

        here does he work.

        Sir?

        I said where does he work.

        Did you not    give out no information.

        A toilet flusc the woman again.

        t out and got in t.

        took t of pocket and unfolded tters io Del Rio and to Odessa.

        in and got some c to t t there.

        I tried to reac I dont believe here anymore.

        t know w. his?

        C over to ter and sat down and ordered a    cup of coffee. has Llewelyn been in? he said.

        of tting o    ting t in. t tening to the radio. Yessir, he said.

        I was looking for Llewelyn.

        here.

        time do you expect him?

        I dont knoly. As if    anot Ch?

        I dont think so.

        Outside ood on tained pavement.    tting at    the building.

        Do you know where Llewelyn is?

        t into t and    back    toown.

        to Del Rio in ternoon and Moss got o tand and ope in. take me to a motel, he said.

        t    one in mind?

        No. Just someplace cheap.

        t to a place called trail Motel and Moss got out    case and paid t into tting    celevision. S up and    around behe desk.

        Do you have a room?

        I got more ts?

        I dont know.

        e got a e is ty-five dollars plus a dollar seventy-five    tax. ty-six seventy-five.

        ty-six seventy-five.

        Yessir.

        For the week.

        Yessir. For the week.

        Is t your best rate?

        Yessir. t no dists on te.

        ell lets just take it one day at a time.

        Yessir.

        to t in and s t tains and stood looking out t ttle court. Dead quiet. e on took out tol and laid it on t.

        e afternoon.    tained asbestos ceiling.

        up and pulled off s and socks and examihe bandages on his heels.

        into t ook off     and exami    on t ter a    knife    set to unscre grille, putting t on tood on oes and looked into t.

        a lengtian blind cord at tied to tced out a t it in    and s te and fasteraps.

        t of t, sliding to tood on t as far as     ig. ook t again until    reac ts rack of dust and faste into took a s s and pulled t y off. t to sleep.

        ening.

        o tain back slig.

        Deep shing.

        dressed and put ttress y still off and smootskirt and sat on the phone and called a cab.

        o pay tra ten dollars to take o Ciudad    Acu?a. reets, looking into t and    tle alameda grackles tling in trees and calling to one    anot into a boot s tics — crocodile and ostric — but ty of ts    he wore.

        into a farmacia and bougin of bandages and sat in tc.    ted to go see to see t on walking.

        e in a restauraablecloters in s. ereak. It aurant y    save for eak came    into it and c about his life.

        back to tel a little after ten and sat in tor running    money for t and arted to    get out but .    to    the side, he said.

        t ter in gear.    room? he said.

        Just drive me around. I    to see if somebodys here.

        t ains ty sure    left to tell. Not t olled slo. No cars in t    t    been there. Keep going, he said.

        t he mirror.

        Keep going, said Moss. Dont stop.

        I dont    to get in some kind of a jackpot here, buddy.

        Just keep going.

        I let you out    argue about it.

        I    you to take me to anotel.

        Lets just call it square.

        Moss leaned for, ryin to get you out of it. Noake me to a motel.

        took tucked it into pocket and turned out of t and    into treet.

        t at t on t    doe breakfast in t sat there.

        t be in to    it.

        C time is eleven oclock.

        t.

        Except of course t t least ties looking for     t going aher.

        By time    up    o o kill somebody.    didnt knoas.

        ook a cab and    into to into a sp goods store and boug exactly t    under reet to a ore.

        t a    millfile and some miscellaneous items. A pair of    pliers and a pair of sidecutters. A scre tape.

        ood on turned a.

        In ting goods staipoles. ried to explain t    care ent it he poles.

        tudied ever kind of tent it is, ill o special    order poles for it. You o get turer and the model number.

        You sell tents, right?

        e got t models.

        t poles in it?

        ell, I guess t en foot ent. You    stand up in it. ell, some    people could stand up in it. Its got a six foot cleara the ridge.

        Let me have one.

        Yessir.

        tent from to and laid it on ter. It came in an e    nylon bag. Moss laid tgun and ter and urings and pulled tent from togethe poles and cords.

        Its all the clerk said.

        do I owe you.

        Its oy-nine plus tax.

        er. tentpoles e    bag and    and put it    and Moss gatgun and ogetentpoles and turned a.    about tent?

        the clerk called.

        In tgun and    in an open dra in front of t    and    t it    aside. to a li left it ol grip and sat on t ted it    for tur side it. It looked pretty good. ur over and    opeo the magazine one by one.

        one more round in t     long.

        rail Motel and told to ools uress and    out again.

        to al-Mart and bougo put ts and some socks. In ternoon    for a    long    along taking t-off gunbarrel and tock    into ter as far as    and oder a ledge of s scrub.    and    on a ridge a o stand looking back at    on a gravel beacy bag folded    in c. at blue and cold. An osprey     do the darkness.
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