YOUNG PEOPLE ANYMORE to ime gro kno t you dont groer t you o. I ized peace officer ime. I    I greist preac tor of a little old try c to go to Lubbock after    about told em    set t cized em and buried em.

        y-one years old, maybe ty-t in tenin. It surprised me.    in scy- one    in our class at boot camp. Six    monter I    even t    peculiar at time. Four years later I ed    but o be alk abo smile at you. But I never    of doubts about t. In    my ts about t. I hope I never do.

        Loretta told me t s some pertage of try bein raised by ts. I fet    ty . Parents    raise em. e talked about t.         ion e along and t    to raise to do it? ts s around and    t even raise t    t. On my better days I    t t kno Im leavin out. But    times are seldom. I imes    and I knoain as    deat t not of t t    slorain.

        I dont kno. But I do.

        I dont believe you could do t a ty unusual    t. Cook    and jailer and I dont kno kno. ell,    maybe t    fresuff a good    part of to fix em o e back even years later and t e back to see me. Ive    seeo introduce ts and t go to ba ty bad t s on t o do about t?

        You aint goin to do not it. ts o do.

        C tion of 131 and opeelepory in ained pages till    to    veterinarian. tside Bracketville about ty minutes aoo t. ory in t    top    of teering    tes. t t onto the highway again.

        o t La Pryor and took to Uvalde. side of Uvalde    of tive and undid towel.

        t out and hobbled in.

        a sack full of veterinary supplies. Cotton and tape and gauze. A bulb syringe    and a bottle of s of four    inc bottle of Betadine.    out and got in tarted t c be t t    it.        and carefully blotted t from    t of t onto toown.

        reet and turned nortty a again on Nopal ill bleeding.    tape and    a t of t    ton.    t togetape into pocket. ook a    coat araig    out. took out a s and cut off one sleeve    and put it in    and put tive and opeing    ood to the door.

        t over o    and stood t ter part of a    mi tarted doreet.

        Outside tore on Main opped and turned and leaned against a car parked    treet. No one ing.    sleeve over t doo tank and dre out    again. aped tank and balled t op of it and taped it do it and turned and limped into tore. tle more toside exploded into flame taking out most of t of tore.

        tle gate and    dos aisles.    of syringes and a bottle of ablets and    find it but etracye and sulfa. uffed    t and came out from beer in t doc    across t beore.

        t t off but no one paid any attention and Co of tore which was now in flames.

        o a motel outside of    a room at t ol u in    tive and dumped tents out into tied s and laid out everyter-keys, billfold, tibiotid t on tub and pulled off s    aub and turned on tap. to tub w filled.

        looked like a se. er    over turned er and studied t    uck to tissue. to put your    thumb in.

        of tub ter ill leaking a pale blood dilute s in ter and    patted o on toilet and took ttle of Betadine    and t of sore opele and tipped it slo ttle do to    ts of clot    er running in ted. ip of t and ser ao his wain.

        ed time and tore open packets of four    by fours and laid ts. tic tumbler on ter er and drank it.    and drank t back    into tret the pillows.

        Ot beading of s on tle evide     all.

        bato tripped one of t of tic    o tetracye and dre to t and pressed til a    small bead appeared at tip of t and slid to t leg and slohe plunger.

        ayed in tel for five days. o tc television on and    up in td    cever came on. calk s solution and took tibiotics.    m     to told    need any service. Just toood tainly. old    t back up tood tudied t and    t the door.

        On t ies from ty    S dos and put ty    c eitook t c all    turning or looking. they spoke.

        t ress came.    table and .    tc trying not to    limp.    o turned.    t t. It could not be seen from taurant.    back to t    and tol in    across t and got into tarted it and drove    over te divider into t of tronics s door and out    onto the highway.

        ells stood on tousling hin and sandy hair.

        urned and leaned against took a picture of noticular and loanding        trailed off to notopped and stood h his arms folded and his    in his hand.

        boto take a picture. tc do ter. eps and came back. epped into to truck passed. A ligremor in tructure.    on along topped. Faint outline of a    bootprint in blood. Fainter of anotudied to see if t be blood on took    and    it ongue and passed it among tood looking do tand    of carrizo e. tly in to Mexico it    .

        ells stood bad looked at tprints again. Some Mexis s and dayparcels. ook out ure of the world.

        Bell sat at totting up figures on a or.    t thouse    lawn. Molly, he said.

        Sood in the door.

        Did you find anyt?

        S everyto find. titled aered    to deceased people. t Blazer died ty years ago. Did you    me    to see    about the mexi ones?

        No. Lord no. heres your checks.

        Sook tte c it under her arm.

        t DEA agent called again. You dont    to talk to him?

        Im goin to try and keep from it as much as I .

        ted to ko go h him.

        ell ts cordial of s. ified agent of    ted States Gover.

        ed to knoo do he vehicles.

        Yea to try a auore ty money dooilet.

        One of em    a    engine in it. e migo get a fe. No    word from Mrs Moss?

        No sir.

        All right.

        ter office    you to call    Loretta and tell o Eagle Pass and Ill call    s me to e    might.

        You    me to    till youve quit the buildin?

        Yes I do.

        dorack be over    and put it on.    is it t    torbert says? About trutice?

        e dedicate ourselves ane.

        I to ence dedi myself t may e to ts    over. Ill see you in the mornin.

        opped at t a coffee to go and    to tbed    reet. Po dust. opped and    d t in t trud    pulled it over.    out and ting at tc of goodnatured arrogance.

        Bell put ohe driver nodded. Sheriff, he    said.

        your load lately?

        ts the problem, Sheriff?

        Bell stepped back from truck. Step out here, he said.

        t out. Bell oruck. ts a    damned e, he said.

        took a look. One of tiedowns is worked loose, he said.

        arp and pulled it back up along truck over tig and    bound ape. t of t t. Dead bodies    aped.

        h? Bell said.

        I aint lost none of em, Sheriff.

        Couldnt you all of took a van out there?

        e didnt h four wheel drive.

        ied doarp and stood.

        All right, Bell said.

        You aint goin to e me up for improperly secured load?

        You get your ass out of here.

        sundourned on ts and got out and s t of tood leaning on t served for    top guardrail. atto to t. A bound semi ing around ted    o vie    jump, S . tg gears. Bell smiled. trutter is, he said, she is.

        Some t tion of 481 and 57 tting in t    gave off a single bleep and    silent again. Co topped. ur and tur back. ed the knobs.

        Not onto twilig.

        ook off    turned on ts. As o beep ime.

        el and got out and came limping around truck gun and tol all in a zipper bag and crossed t and    climbed tel steps.

        ered and got teps and doo    in and locked tgun across     staring at transponder sending unit to be    in tel.    Moss because    Moss    certainly dead.

        t left t of tacumbe Petroleum Group.     t    t t t    t    about t.

        en-ty at nig    but    t up and put tgun beuck tol into tband of rousers. t out and limped doairs to the desk.

        tting reading a magazine and he desk and rose. Yessir, he said.

        Id like to see tration.

        Are you a police officer?

        No. Im not.

        Im afraid I t do t sir.

        Yes you .

        opped and stood listening in tside his door.

        in and got tgun and to tape across it and o tur on.    doo tried tion to t room and    opeepped bad stood against the    hallway wall.

        raffi treet beyond t but still    to ty on tgun. epped across to ther side.

        t in table.    on turning it in al t t t. .    tal in    and turned off t, pulling t be about t for a mi transponder on turned and    back doo the lobby.

        And ted for ells. No one .    in a leato t door and to    t eleven-teen and Cairs, tgun airs ells turned and looked bad C tgun to . hello, Carson, he said.

        t in ells room, ells on t o do trader. I could just go home.

        You could.

        Id make it ake you to an AtM. Everybody just    fourteen grand in it.

        Good payday.

        I think so.

        C tgun across ting    cive. Ive moved on, in a o    place t    t t t. t    it is t Ive sort of caugs not a bad t was    overdue.

        Its still a good payday.

        It is. Its just in the wrong currency.

        ells eyed tay years ago. Probably    not even t you o do, he said.

        C sloug against his knuckles.

        atcc ts.    all before. So had ells.

        It started before t,    realize it at time.    doopped in a cafe in to looking back at me. I didnt pay any attention to e. But er to pay to go past    t was o ignore. Do you    know w I did?

        Yea you did.

        I ignored arted to pusurned and looked at    standioottle gesture o e outside.

        If o. And t out. And I ed in t. And    and I killed    and t into my car. t kno    I    a sleeper . trying to get o sit up. trying to get o sit up. An er I side    of Sonora texas and I let ake me into toed to see if I could extricate myself by an act of    one . t suc it o do. Do you uand?

        Do I uand?

        Yes.

        Do you ion of how goddamned crazy you are?

        ture of tion?

        ture of you.

        Cudied ells. tell me something, he said.

        .

        If to t use he rule?

        I dont knoalking about.

        Im talking about your life. In w once.

        Im not ied in your bulls, Anton.

        I t you mig to explain yourself.

        I dont o explain myself to you.

        Not to me. to yourself. I t you migo say.

        You go to hell.

        You surprise me, ts all. I expected somet. It calls past events into    question. Dont you think so?

        You trade places h you?

        Yes. I do. Im es I ill be here.

        ells looked out tchel is, he said.

        If you knew wc.

        I o o    until till nig.

        You know wchel is.

        Yes.

        I knoter.

        s t.

        I knoo be.

        And w.

        It    my feet.

        ells    cost you anyts    ty minutes from here.

        You knos not going to    you?

        ells didnt answer.

        Dont you?

        You go to hell.

        You t it off h your eyes.

        do you mean?

        You t as long as you keep looking at me you    put it off.

        I dont t.

        Yes you do. You s your situation. ty in it. Im    trying to help you.

        You son of a bitch.

        You t close your eyes. But you will.

        ells didnt anshink, he said.

        You dont knohink.

        You t its just greed. But Im not like you. I live a simple life.

        Just do it.

        You    uand. A man like you.

        Just do it.

        Yes, C. But t mean it, do they?

        You piece of s.

        Its not good, Carson. You o pose yourself. If you dont respect me     you t where you are.

        You tside of everyt youre not.

        Not everything. No.

        Youre not outside of death.

        It doeso me    does to you.

        You to die?

        Yes.

        Just do it. Do it and goddamn you.

        Its not to get    tood t.    order to abandon o a point. Did you empt?

        ?    yourself get in tuation?

        ells looked out at treet.    time is it? he said.

        d looked at cy-seven he said.

        ells nodded. By t tes. ell t. I time ago. Almost like a dream. Déjà vu.    terested in your opinions,    do it. You    goddamned psyd goddamn you to hell.

        urned o fend a be fended a union,    of    y g off to it and put it in    and looked at cill a minute    away.

        doairs and crossed t to ells car and sorted out    t and rear and us. It al car and t but tal tra t.    trunk. Not around to t and raised tment and tood looking at tel. anding t and puston and put it to his ear. Yes, he said.

        Moss made o to ur tarted    back. t stood on    bueno, he said.

        Late in t roubling dream and struggled doo use teleper and listeo it ring. It rang a long time. Finally her answered.

        Its Llewelyn.

        S    to talk to you.

        Yes she does.

        Do you k is?

        I dont care ime it is. Dont you his phone.

        I told    o    I? Cer and verse. I said: t o pass. And no o pass.

        Dont you     her on.

        thisaway.

        , Llehem words?

        here are you.

        Piedras Negras.

        am I supposed to do, Llewelyn?

        Are you all right?

        No Im not all rig? People callin    you. I errell ty. S t you was    dead.

        I aint dead.    did you tell him?

        could I tell him?

        you into sayin somethin.

        Youre , aint you?

        makes you say t?

        I     in your voice. Are you okay?

        Im okay.

        here are you?

        I told you where I was.

        You sound like youre in a bus station.

        Carla Jean I to get out of there.

        Out of where?

        Out of t house.

        Youre s me, Lle of o go where?

        It dont matter. I just dont tay to a motel.

        And do h Mama?

        S.

        S?

        Yes.

        You dont kno.

        Lle answer.

        Do you?

        I just dont ther her.

        You dont think?

        You o get out. Just take h you.

        I t take my mama to a motel. S fot.

        did the sheriff say.

        Said    do you think he said?

        else did he say.

        S answer.

        Carla Jean?

        She sounded like she was g.

        else did he say, Carla Jean?

        o get yourself killed.

        ell, ts w he would say.

        S a long time.

        Carla Jean?

        Lle even    t    us to be back like we was.

        e will be.

        No . Ive t about it. Its a false god.

        Yea its real money.

        So cry. ried to talk to    s ansening to ly in Odessa.    do you     me to do? he said.

        S answer.

        Carla Jean?

        I    to be like they was.

        If I tell you Ill try and fix evert I asked you?

        Yes. I will.

        Ive got a number     help us.

        you trust them?

        I dont kno kno trust nobody else. Ill call you tomorro t you. Ill call you tomorrow.

        ells     ans it    ells. I t the wrong number, he said.

        You dont o e see me.

        his?

        You know w is.

        Moss leaned on ter,    .

        heres ells?

        kind of a deal did you cut h him?

        I didnt cut any kind of a deal.

        Yes you did. o give you?

        I dont knoalkin about.

        he money.

        did you do h ells.

        e    o    yourself about ells.    of ture. You o talk to me.

        I doo talk to you.

        I think you do. Do you know where Im going?

        hy would I care where yoin?

        Do you know where Im going?

        Moss didnt answer.

        Are you there?

        Im here.

        I know where you are.

        Yeah? here am I?

        Youre in tal at Piedras Negras. But ts not where Im going. Do you know    where Im going?

        Yeah. I know where yoin.

        You    turn all this around.

        hy would I believe you?

        You believed ells.

        I didnt believe ells.

        You called him.

        So I called him.

        tell me    me to do.

        Moss sed . S stood on    answer.

        tell me someting.

        I could be in for you er a plane. You    t about t?

        t    you .

        ?

        You    old me. Anyway, I o go.

        You khere.

        It doesnt make any difference whey are.

        So here for.

        You knourn out, dont you?

        No. Do you?

        Yes. I do. I too. You just    accepted it yet. So t Ill do. You    bri able. the same as you.

        I dont kno t. But ts t deal yoing to get. I     tell you you    save yourself because you t.

        Im goin t you somet, Moss said. Ive decided to make you a special    projeine. You aint goin to o look for me at all.

        Im glad to . You o disappoint me.

        You    be disappointed.

        Good.

        You dont o by god    bein disappointed.

        before dayligal go over it.

        t of t iff    of    t iff and bloodstained.

        ood i looking tos. ion he er. A feassed.

        o ts at t er and stopped and lea t ook one no dry.    o vomit. ood    time. t on save t it ed iron bars to disce loiterers. A cab    by and    it kept going. o o go out into treet and after a tering time o the curb.

        tudied ake me across the bridge?

        he said.

        to ther side.

        Yes. to ther side.

        You got monies.

        Yes. I got monies.

        ty dollars, he said.

        Okay.

        At te t in t try were you born in? he said.

        ted States.

        are ying in?

        Not anything.

        tudied epping out here? he said.

        Moss pus seat to ease    of    tood.

        o your shoes?

        I dont know.

        You dont hes on, do you?

        I got clothes on.

        t. ed for to t sed space there?

        t the cab in gear.

        ould you mind stepping ahe vehicle?

        Moss stepped ao t the engine.

        Moss looked at to be ing for o say somet    .

        took    eel ce office. Anotood leaning against a steel desk. he looked him over.

        o drink?

        I aint o drink.

        o you?

        do you mean?

        o your clothes.

        I dont know.

        Do you ification?

        No.

        Nothing.

        No.

        t . s to    go te into ted States of America?

        I dont knoizens.

        Some Ameri citizens. ?

        You do I re.

        ts correct. And how do I decide?

        I dont know.

        I ask questions. If I get sensible ans to go to America. If I do    sensible ans. Is t t t you dont uand?

        No sir.

        to start over.

        All right.

        e o    w hes on.

        I got a overcoat on.

        Are you ja h me?

        No sir.

        Dont jack he service?

        No sir. Im a veteran.

        branche service.

        Uates Army.

        ere you in Nam?

        Yessir. tours.

        outfit.

        try.

        es of tour duty.

        August seventeen and sixty-six to September sed een and sixty-eight.

        tcime. Moss looked at oy ting    h his    elbows on his knees.

        Are you all right?

        Yessir. Im all rig a ll e a me if you all    me go on.

        any money? You got ge for a phone call?

        Yessir.

        iles. A guard anding tted    t someoo his man.

        o get into toaxi gone?

        Yessir. It was .

        I kno someoo help him.

        Moss. here are you from?

        Im from San Saba texas.

        Does your wife know where you are?

        Yessir. I talked to    a while ago.

        Did you all ?

        Did w?

        You and your wife.

        ell. Somew of a one I re. Yessir.

        You o tell her youre sorry.

        Sir?

        I said you o tell her youre sorry.

        Yessir. I will.

        Even if you t was .

        Yessir.

        Go o your ass out of here.

        Yessir.

        Sometimes you tle problem and you dont fix it and t aint a    little problem anymore. You uand ellin you?

        Yessir. I do.

        Go on.

        Yessir.

        It    daylig out up treet. A bloody    serum he inside of his leg.

        People paid tle mind. urned up Adams Street and stopped at a clotore    and peered in. Lig t ted and    knocked again. Finally a small man in a ie ope at    open, Moss said, but I need some clothes real bad.

        the door. e in, he said.

        to se. tony Lama, Justin,    Noa. t s and some clot some    medical problems and I dont    to    I    help.

        the man nodded. Yessir, he said. Of course.

        Do you carry the Larry Mahans?

        No sir. e dont.

        ts all rigy-ty-four lengt    size large. Some socks. And ss in a ten and a .

        Yessir. Did you    to look at s?

        Moss looked across tore. I t    any of tos s s?

        Yes tle better grade ison. A five X, I t is.

        Let me see tetson. t silverbelly color.

        All rige socks all right?

        e socks is all I wear.

        about underwear?

        Maybe a pair of jockey ss. ty-two. Or medium.

        Yessir. You just make yourself fortable. Are you all right?

        Im all right.

        turo go.

        I ask you somethin? Moss said.

        Yessir.

        Do you get a lot of people e in hes on?

        No sir. I    say a lot.

        o t    and    from ted    across    tape but t    stick. s and took t and pulled t and up to    ood and pulled t again    and undid t from its cardboard forms and endless pins.

        of t over ood looking do ts. takes loo break in, he said.

        Yea in too. t. Lets try t . I aint been duded up    like t out of the army.

        t top t aken it from. to close tel, he said.

        Bell nodded. I aint surprised.

        t. t feller    pulled but to    me t tever even imagined sug.

        never of left.

        I t about t too.

        t    t none of em live long    enougo tell it.

        tic, Ed tom.

        Yea tic though.

        ell w would you call him?

        I dont kno?

        Its done closed, as far as t goes.

        You got a key?

        Yea a key. Its a crime se.

        here and look around some more.

        All rig.

        t transponder unit sitting on a he hallway.

        Bell picked it up and tur in    the knobs.

        t aint a goddamn bomb is it Sheriff?

        No.

        ts all we need.

        Its a tra device.

        So    ra they found.

        Probably.    beein there do you re?

        I dont kno be able to guess ra, though.

        Maybe, Bell said. t t dont rattle right.

        It aint supposed to.

        e got a ex-army el    of    you o ID off of s.    fingers    s off. Regular army. Fourteen years serviot a    piece of paper on him.

        hed been robbed.

        Yeah.

        do you kno t you aint tellin, Sheriff?

        You got ts I got.

        I aint talkin about facts. Do you th?

        Bell s know.

        You got a dog in t?

        Not really. A couple of kids from my ty t mig of involved t oug to be.

        Sort of involved.

        Yeah.

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        ransponder unit to the sheriff.

        am I supposed to do his?

        Its Maverick ty property. Crime se evidence.

        the sheriff shook his head. Dope, he said.

        Dope.

        t s to schoolkids.

        Its .

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        Sc.
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