I AS Sy y-five. o believe. My fat a la time, ty proud of t. I kno back    from tuff and of course people    . I    campaigned pretty o. I tried to be fair. Jack used to say t any time    youre t youre losin ground but I tly it just    in o speak    ill of anybody. And I never did mind bein like y-one years. No c a girl but I    talk about t. I served terms and to Denton texas. Jack used to say t bein s jobs you could . Maybe lots of t. e stayed gone and stayed gone. I done differeive on    t time my    all t sure about us in back     me runnin. But sed to so ts er    person t to anybody t cares to listen. Not t ts sayin    a er person than anybody I know. Period.

        People t t but t. Sometimes if t it any of Kerrs Mertile and    cross treet and sipped my    to    just almost a smile    back, t .

        People plain about t o em t t deserve but tion t o deserve t recall    t I ever give t muile on me. But he did.

        O tuesday m it    daylig    to able in t table    o ress broug back to    tc stirring to stir since    black. ture     page of tin paper. Bell read, sy years old.

        You kno a man in    ty some odd years. t    hed be    remembered for.

        S by.

        ook endell o t Aire and stood at the door    while endell knocked.

        Look at the lock, Bell said.

        endell drement, he called.

        t nobody here.

        No reason not to be careful.

        ts righe world.

        tood. endell    Bell stopped    s just keep to t careful routine, he said.

        Yessir.

        and    up.

        s t? said endell.

        der out of the lock.

        Bell passed     at, oand te the speed.

        I expect you could.

        Pretty good speed.

        Yessir. Pretty good speed.

        t do you think, Sheriff?

        I believe t a shuck.

        I do too.

        Kindly in a    it, too.

        Yep.

        o tcor and looked in and s it again.

        he freezer.

        So when was he here, Sheriff?

        o say. e mig missed him.

        You t any notion of ts of sons of bitc are in him?

        I dont knoo.    made a impression on    me.

        trouble, aint they?

        Yes they are.

        Bell o t on tood in the doorway.

        ill    are you thinkin? he said.

        Bell s look up.

        By ednesday ate of texas s o Sanderson. Bell sat at able in t    ty years old t anding troduced er for tonio Ligs all t, Sheriff? he said.

        It appears to be a in act.

        ing act?

        Yessir.

        be a ing act? Youre pulling my leg.

        Let me ask you somethin.

        All right.

        Last year een felony cerrell ty Court.    drug related?

        I dont know.

        time I got a ty t is full of people    t?

        I dont know.

        I do o eat my breakfast    kindly a full day ahead.

        orbert drove out in torberts four    it.

        trud ed. Its ten, torbert said.

        ?

        Its ten. Deceased. e fot about old yrick. Its ten.

        Bell    , he said.

        Yessir. t .

        ter arrived and circled a do on the bajada.

        Nobody got out. ting for t to bloorbert cor winding down.

        ts name yre. Bell kneo.    out os and    and a Cart vas jacket and    until    h.

        Sheriff Bell, he said.

        Agent Mtyre.

        vehis?

        Its a 72 Ford pickup.

        Mtyre stood looking out doapped t his leg.

        Bell. Im o kno, e in color.

        Id say we. Yes.

        Could use a set of tires.

        over and ruck. e on his clipboard. he looked inside.

        forhe back.

        tires?

        Bell anding s. . Deputy    y.

        Rival party.

        Yessir.

        I t t up.

        they are.

        But not this one.

        Not this one.

        Mtyre looked too a ride doh you?

        Sure you .

        toorberts truck. t looked at Bell and apped t    io make this easy, do you?

        yre. Im just messin h you.

        t t-up trucks. Mtyre o ed in t t thing I ever saw, he said.

        ood making notes on ances and made a rougc tes.

        ere there no guns here? he said.

        Not as many as t two pieces in evidence.

        heyve been dead?

        Four or five days.

        Somebody must    away.

        Bell    a mile north of here.

        t Bronco.

        Yep.

        Mexi black tar.

        Bell looked at torbert. torbert leaned and spat.

        If t somebody is    missing.

        Id say ts a reasonable guess.

        Mtyre tinued ing. Dont    it.

        I aint worried.

        Mtyre adjusted    and stood looking at trucks. Are t    here?

        Rangers are in. Or one is. DPS drug unit.

        Ive got .380s, .45s, nine millimeter parabellum, thing else?

        I t .

        Mtyre nodded. I guess ting for t by    no its not ing.    about trol?

        Everbodys in as far as I kno it to get rig could be a    bigger drahe flood ba 65.

        Yeah.

        o get t of here.

        Mtyre tapped t    t truth, he said.

        Nine millimeter parabellum, said torbert.

        Bell nodded. You o put t in your files.

        sponder ing across t    of Del Rio. It    and turening.

        ts picked up some kind of a large bird sitting on tton to let took tol from beside t out ting tol ted ed onto t of brass mapp- gas burners fitted into a uffed ion and painted flat black.    as ts wings.

        It flared s, very urning and lifting ao t    to t and tream and ceased. Col in t and put the window back up    again.

        Moss paid tepped out into ts in front of tel offid    slung t turned and    in. ter.    ter. Stle flustered. o stay a while?

        I need another room.

        You    to ot?

        I    to keep t a another one.

        All right.

        a map of tel?

        Ser. to be a sort of a one. ait a minute. I t.

        Ser. It sies parked in front.

        and flatte out and studied it.

        about one forty-two?

        You     to yours if you    it. Oy aint took.

        ts all rig about one forty-two?

        S ts, she    said.

        and turned do tel. Ser g him go.

        In t on t.    up and    into tood in tub o tV laying somewhere.

        bad sat and unzipped took out tgun and laid it to one    side and tied t onto the bed.

        ook t tood on it and unscre grille and stepped do dustside up on t o t. ened. ood do t and climbed back up again.

        tion in t te do and ig out. urned off t and stood listening. ried listening    .

        tgun and    to turned off t at    tcood in t tain at tyard.

        t bad laid tgun on turned on t.

        ied ttle nylon bag and slid t. t long and aped ts    tape    so t t pull apart.    to t and came back    on t tters and o one ape. taped to tood up and    slid twork.

        ur off and pitto t back to t. Drone of a truck passing out oill it was gone.

        A cat t yard stopped. t    on again.

        ood on t in urned on t and laid t tal    so as to mute t tur and broug back. t and    turly and ter a feries o get it    caugraps and o silently up t    until    go the bag.

        on t from tecraps and ope and looked at ts of bills. ook one of    t. tted it bad undid tied to trap and turned off t and sat listening. ood and read t back tools.    tgun and tools in took    it and t t as it was.

        Cel rooms ur t and came back. o a stop    and put tly doop and stopped    again. Finally o t in.

        tel office y-televisio he woman looked like shed been asleep. Yessir, she said.    I help you?

        tpocket and got into to t out and o t. In to ts and came back out tery pad tgun from truck. tgun on automatic ic military stod a parkerized finis ted     long and big around as a beer.    past tening to the signal.

        o tood in te lig lamp. o tur on took to see cood in taking it all in once again.    and pulled on s and got tank and slung it across    up ttlegun    and    doo the room.

        ood listening at t the door.

        A Mexi in a green guayabera    up on t imes so fast it sounded like one long    guns a most of t of . tgun made a strange deep co a barrel.    and stepped out of tood o tside wall. .

        No o tanding    door and anotepped out again. Doo ed. to the room once more.

        to sream of    blood arted across tiles.

        epped into tgun leveled at . t tub    in t and te, e. Cepped back to avoid    tub and s he face.

        and stood on t ba and seard    into tol    it t bad fort to get    ts and ood looking at t.

        ook to tove in te al lampbase and pulled it loose and looked in.

        . ood t    blood and matter on    from off took t off and    back    into to toogun and came bato to t, t balled in one soles on t again and    looked around t time a.

        o torbert looked up from    of him.

        Is t? Bell said.

        Yessir.

        Bell leaned ba o read, tapping h his forefinger.

        After a    do torbert. I know ened    here, he said.

        All right.

        o a slaughterhouse?

        Yessir. I believe so.

        Youd kno if you had.

        I t once when I was a kid.

        Funny place to take a kid.

        I t my own self. Snu.

        he beef?

        traddled te and t t a time    and    all day.

        t sounds ab do it ta ss a steel bolt out of it. Just ss it out about so far. t t trigger and do quick.

        torbert anding at ted a minute for to    ti t tiorbert stood t of even told me, he said.

        I kno.

        Moss pulled into Eagle Pass at a quarter till t a good part    of treet. ce globes of treetlamps    pass along t up.

        You goin across the driver said.

        No. Just take me doown.

        You are doown.

        Moss leaned for.

        s t righere.

        ts ty Courthouse.

        Nhe sign is.

        ts tel Eagle.

        Drop me there.

        y dollars teps to t in. tanding at ting him.

        t and climbed tairs and el corridor. Dead quiet. No ligransoms.    t and    in and s t from treetlamps ing tains at t t back to tc. Old faston    sce. Oak furniture from turn of tury. Brown walls. Same ille    bedspread.

        on t up and looked out t t and    into t a glass of er and came bad    sat on took a sip aer on top of table. there is no goddamn way, he said.

        co take ts of    money out and to stack ty    for a    false bottom and    it aside and began to go    tacks of bills, riffling ead stag t about a t.

        t ers cut out and    transponder unit    ter. ape and took it out and    in t up    and took t-out dollar bills and tape to toilet and came back.    t    and t of tes into t t t it.    about a lot of t t stayed    at some point o o quit running on luck.

        tgun out of t on turned on the bedside lamp.

        to turned off t and came bad stret tared at t    kno into t over t ook a urned on t er and    t out and d    bad    sat on t o        you got used to. And if you    did?

        ied out t tgun in and zipped it s and took it togetco te s and a black boie. te and reading Ring magazine and    Moss    enting in the smoke. Yessir, he said.

        Did you just e on?

        Yessir. Be ill ten in the mornin.

        Moss laid a er. t dohe magazine.

        I aint askin you to do nothin illegal, Moss said.

        Im just in to ion of t, the clerk said.

        to do is to call me if anybody c?

        tclerk took tte out of    over a small glass asipped t tle finger and looked at Moss. Yessir, .

        Moss nodded and    back upstairs.

        t up and looked at table. Four ty-seven.     s and pulled t listening.

        over and stood o tgun in one    in tic sain urned on tap and pulled to start tain back around tub and    out and closed throom door behind him.

        ood at tening again.    t u it in t over and sc at table and sto to t t ring and ook t on table.    ty-t table.    up and pulled    t of it and put it ba t over and stood at tgun. o omac o    t    o do.

        to t    and lay toma poi t spaougs.    pumping against ty carpet. ed. tersected t beood t    tly. t into ted. ried not even to blink but    rics standing in the doorway.

        Pressed jeans. tood to throom.

        At t moment Moss realized t    going to open to turn around. And oo late. too late to make any more    mistakes or to do anyt all and t o die. Do it,    do it.

        Dont turn around, urn around and Ill bloo hell.

        t move. Moss was walking forward on gun.    and    know w kind of gun    now.

        A sgun clattered to t your hands up, he said.

        Step back from the door.

        ook teps bad stood,    se ao it. Everytgun at    he hammer cocked.

        t could     even look at roubled. As if t of his day.

        Back up. Some more.

        gun and t onto td s the door. Look over here, he said.

        turned    Moss. Blue eyes. Serene. Dark    ly exotic. Beyond Mosss experience.

        do you ?

        answer.

        Moss crossed took post of t case stood t.    up.

        t eveo notice. s seemed elsewhere.

        ook t un s    it under s go,    into the    hallway.

        t ransponder receiver anding in t outside    t it taken mun trained on t,     in one ol. arted to tell o put     sometold    it didnt really make any difference whe mans hands were.

        till open, till running.

        You s tairs and Ill s you.

        t ans Moss knew.

        Rig you take anotep.

        opped. Moss backed to tairs and took one last look at anding t from turned and doubled doairaki a time.    kno t far ahead.

        In tclerks feet ig out from be    stop.    t door and doeps. By time reet Cel above     sometug at tols    a muffled pop, flat and    small in t of toime to see t faint but visible ueen foot el sign.

        feel anyt s    and blood started running do s    a stinging    pain in    up again leaving    lying i. Damn,    a s.

        tec tre. As tle    round ticket kiosk all t of it.    s. gun and t rattled off torey balustrade and took t of some of turned again a car ing doreet picked s and slourned up Adams Street and terse in a cloud of rubbersmoke and stopped. trying to start it. Moss turned o t on foot at a run.

        One of t tgun and to creet art up again.

        By time    to Grareet a pandemonium of gunfire    be torereet, o gun and t case, dark in table. ting on t up    you son of a bitc you set t the hell up.

        reet s.    and sgun in and zipped it s again. ood t. to t o    vomit.

        turnstile on t a dime in t and pusaggered out onto t breaking first lig sao the far side.

        a party returning. Four of teen, partly    drunk.    took a pack of t.

        t on r and peeled off five of    t t in .

        Excuse me,    tprints on the    walk behind him like clues in an arcade.

        Excuse me.

        tepping off to to go around him.

        Excuse me I .

        t stop till t urned. ll you give? he    said.

        t man be.

        t stopped hers.

        how much?

        Ill give you five hundred dollars.

        Bulls.

        e on Brian.

        Lets go, Brian. hes drunk.

        Brian looked at t Moss. Lets see the money, he said.

        Its right here.

        Let me see it.

        Let me .

        Lets go, Brian.

        You take t me . t.

        All right.

        of t and    over and Moss he bill.

        s t?

        Blood.

        Blood?

        Blood.

        ood    t    o you?

        Ive been s.

        Lets go, Brian. Goddamn.

        Let me he money.

        Moss led into t. t t and stepped    away.

        on. topped. talking toget    t buttoned and put    and so keep    ell you twice.

        turned and    on. t ried to see s all rig keep puttin one foot in front of ther.

        ually passed beopped and stood looking do it. tes a t to t. Over    toer moved behing.

        tand of tall carrizo e gro took    be over t into space.

        e pain.    slo from to to t and sat t t up,    up.

        eo toate of Coahuila.

        reet to a small park or zocalo rees rees ed o t of    a    and from a dista e posts arrayed at random.

        In ter a wrougand. he bench beside him and leaned forward holding himself.

        Globes e ligands. t seemed far ahe    branches overhead and day was ing.

        out one    lie down.

        No sun. Just t breaking. treets . tters.

        An old man was ing along pushen he moved on.

        Se?or, Moss said.

        Bueno, the old man said.

        You speak english?

        udied Moss, h hands. he shrugged his shoulders.

        I need a doctor.

        ted for more. Moss pus, he said.

        tongue. ohe dawn.

        trees and buildings taking s Moss aured h his .

        Puede andar? he said.

        ?

        Puede ar? ions     t.

        Moss nodded. A ill it passed.

        tiene dinero? together.

        Si, Moss said. Si. ood s of bloodsoaked bills    from t pocket and separated a e and    to took it    reverence.    Moss and tood t the bench.

        eps and out t door of tel oied ions of o tol in ther.

        terse and treet. epped bato tter of automatic riflefire and    tgun rattling off treet s and tennis s look like anybody you     to meet in t of try. eps to tol over trade and opened fire on them.

        By time t w beel.

        Cood o tted a freso tol. taking out tering up t    out. It ill dark enougreet t you could see the muzzleflashes.

        turned and puso tel lobby, ts of glass crag under s.    gimping doeps at tel and out into t.

        reet and    up Jefferson keeping t to    at y Courtes at best before    fresies began to arrive.

        to tanding i.    t up, all of t    least one body icel and Col and s . Cepped back beood ol uprig ing. A    rig of gunpohe smell of fireworks. No sound    anywhere.

        into treet one of t from tel porcoc    fender of t t    ind. o tled t and    t and picked up t y-five round clip. C pockets and    came up    t of     and stuck tol do of    and c    o the curb.

        t in tcreet toel and tall palm trees.    the man.

        took tol from . o the man looked away.

        Look at me, Chigurh said.

        the man looked and looked away again.

        Do you speak english?

        Yes.

        Dont look a you to look at me.

        C t. C ood cc reg. atc squandered reet once more. treet and    limping on    toel parking lot w his vehicle.
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