IVE LOSt A LOt OF friends over t fe all of em ettin older is t not everbody is goin to    get older ry to re payin your salary and of course    you t    t ty    y-one years. No nine of em in one    kno you. time is not on your side. I dont knod be any pliment if you was known for sed guessin a bunch of dopedealers.

        Not t t mucrouble sed guessin us. t     for t aint . t even t t doo even     em. Of course onio t and killed a federal    judge. I guess o t t ttin ricics. ts a painful to kno is for me. I dont believe    t rue even ten years ago. A crooked peace officer is just a damned abomination.

        ts all you    say about it. en times     goin as about t aint goin ao?

        And t but I t of it is kno probably    till alive is t t for me. And ts very    painful. Very painful. It     of t about    even a few years ago. y.

        Just settin out in t. t and graded out a sort of    landin strip a out roarbarrels f t t of t ripped out to t s seat    in it. You could smell t need no dog. ell t say ed to get set up and nail em    nobody in baever    ood    ellin    got real    quiet and turned around and got in .

        buy a    masonjar no up your preserves and sue to be    it o put    t tick em    do things.

        o believe t a man    nig, but t.

        I tan and you tin around tryin to t     bring to its knees ics. Maybe old t to somebody at breakfast tan. I said ell t aint t. And t    do you? I o t t. I guess as a boy I did. e t. Noartin to lean back t of t ot ion. Or not to me t.

        MOSS SEt ter it. ed t stood along ard aced into    te.    look up.    are you havin, he said.

        I dont kno looked at the menu.

        in front of urned and looked for tress.

        are you? the girl said.

        am I havin?

        No.    are you. Are you a cer?

        udied    know w a cer is, ers.

        I mig be a felloraveler.

        Felloraveler.

        Yeah.

        ell you are now.

        Youre , aint you?

        makes you say t?

        You t hardly walk.

        Maybe its just a old war injury.

        I dont t o you?

        You mean lately?

        Yeaely.

        You doo know.

        ?

        I dont    you gettin all excited on me.

        makes you t excited?

        Cause bad girls like bad boys.    are you goin to have?

        I dont kno you do?

        tizen. orkin a o five job. Eigo four,    anyo you t ask first. t require    your permission.

        ts trut told, she said.

        You .

        You think Im a bad girl?

        I to be.

        s in t briefcase?

        Briefs.

        s in it.

        I could tell you, but to kill you.

        You aint supposed to carry a gun in a public place. Did you not kno? In particular    a gun suc.

        Let me ask you somethin.

        Go ahead.

        in starts her be armed or be legal?

        I dont    to be around no sin.

        Yes you do. Its e all over you. You just dont    to get s.    are you havin?

        are you?

        Ce milk.

        tress came and t t beef sandoes and gravy. You aint even asked me where I was goin, she said.

        I know where yoin.

        hen.

        Dohe road.

        t aint no answer.

        Its more t a answer.

        You dont knohing.

        No I dont.

        You ever kill anybody?

        Yeah, he said. You?

        S never killed nobody.

        I dont kno.

        ell I aint.

        You aint, then.

        You aint doher. Are you?

        Done w.

        I just said.

        Killin people?

        So see if t be overheard.

        Yes, she said.

        Be o say.

        After a    of    mayonnaise and squeezed out tents over chup. here you from? he said.

        Sook a drink of ea and hur,    she said.

        ook up t into it and sat back,    ever been to Port Arthur.

        I aint never seen you there.

        never been there?

        I couldnt. I    sayin I aint. I h you.

        Moss shook his head.

        te. ched her.

        I re youre on your o California.

        ?

        ts tion youre headed in.

        ell ts where Im goin.

        You got any money?

        s it to you?

        It aint noto me. Do you?

        I got some.

        of t and took out ted out a to t to. Lets go, he said.

        s t for?

        to go to California on.

        do I gotta do for it?

        You dont o do not    t up as go.

        t to truck. You    callin me a sow back yonder was you?

        Moss ignored he keys, he said.

        Sook t and    maybe youd fot    I had em, she said.

        I dont fet much.

        I could of just slipped off like I o took your trud left    you settin there.

        No you couldnt of.

        ?

        Get in truck.

        t in and    tec-9 out of    and    slid it u.

        ? she said.

        Dont be ignorant all your life. In t place I could see all to t door    and out t clear to truck. In to set o t called a cab and run you do t out of you a you layin there.

        S real quiet.    tion and started trud backed it out.

        ould you of do?

        do you think?

        o Van     nig a good part of    to a truckstop and s    off t up and looked at    at t. here are we? she said.

        Van horn. You hungry?

        I could eat a bite.

        You    some diesel fried chi?

        ?

        ed to the sign overhead.

        I aiin not, she said.

        Sime.    sed to know if hed    ordered.

        I did. I ordered some of t chi for you.

        You aint do, she said.

        teaks. Do you live like time? she said.

        Sure. ime desperado t.

        s t on t ?

        this?

        Yeah.

        Its a tush off of a wild boar.

        do you    for?

        It aint mine. Im just keepin it for somebody.

        A lady somebody?

        No, a dead somebody.

        teaks came. c. Does t? he said.

        ?

        I said does anybody know w.

        Like who?

        Like anybody.

        You.

        I dont kno know who you are.

        ell t makes two of us.

        You dont know who you are?

        No, silly. I dont know who you are.

        ell,    keep it t     not?

        All rigd you ask me t for?

        Moss mopped up steak gravy    t it rue. For    you its a luxury. For me its a y.

        er you?

        Maybe.

        I do like it t    part right.

        It dont take long to get a taste for it, does it?

        No, s dont.

        ell, it aint as simple as it sounds. Youll see.

        .

        t. Kno.

        Are you talkin about God?

        No. Im talkin about you.

        Se. ell, s know w.

        I dont know. ould you?

        I dont know.

        Suppose you    you didnt kno kno    c w.

        S about t. I try not to t stuff like t, she said.

        You t to California youll kind of start over.

        tentions.

        I ts t. to California and t t    to shere.

        Shere.

        Yeah.

        You mean and not knohere?

        Yea knohere.

        I dont know .

        I dos t.

        Se. S some coffee? she said.

        You    get anyt. You got money.

        S    sure    is, she said.

        t is t no point.

        No. I mean    knowin where you are.

        er a    about kno    t t takin anytions about startin over.

        Or anybodys. You dont start over. ts s about. Ever step you take is forever.

        You t make it go a. You uand w Im sayin?

        I think so.

        I kno but let me try it one more time. You terday dont t. But yesterday is all t does t.    else is there?

        Your life is made out of ts made out of. Not t knoart over. And t there?

        She nodded.

        You uand w Im sayin?

        I uand t. I been there.

        Yeah, I know you have.

        So are you sorry you bee a outlaw?

        Sorry I didnt start sooner. Are you ready?

        of tel office he handed her a key.

        s t?

        ts your key.

        Sed it in    s up to you.

        Yes it is.

        I guess youre afraid Ill see    bag.

        Not really.

        arted trud pulled do beel office.

        Are you queer? she said.

        Me? Yea.

        You dont look it.

        Is t rig of queers?

        You dont act it I guess I should say.

        ell darlin    it?

        I dont know.

        Say it again.

        ?

        Say it again. I dont know.

        I dont know.

        ts good. You o practice t. It sounds good on you.

        Later    out and drove doo top. o tel     tudying t. t out.

        o apped at ted. apped again. ain move and tood t-s. S woken up.

        I kno old enougo drink but I t Id see if you ed a beer.

        Yeah, she said. Id drink a beer.

        ed one of ttles out of t to her. here    you go, he said.

        uro go. Sepped out a be    o rusaway, she said.

        opped on tep.

        You got anot sack?

        Yea to drink both of em.

        I just meant maybe you could set h me.

        ed at ice rouble takin no for a ans starts about age three.

        about men?

        t used to it. tter.

        I    say a    set here.

        You    say a word.

        No.

        ell ts already a lie.

        ell I    say .

        on tep and pulled one of ted off tilted ttle and drank. S on t step up and did the same.

        You sleep a lot? he said.

        I sleep he ce. Yeah. You?

        I aint s sleep in about t kno s beginnin to make me stupid.

        You dont look stupid to me.

        ell, ts by yhts.

        does t mean?

        Nin you. Ill quit.

        You aint gs in t satchel have you?

        No. hy? You use drugs?

        Id smoke some weed if you had some.

        ell I aint.

        ts all right.

        Moss shook his head. he drank.

        I just meant its all rig set out here and drink a beer.

        ell Im glad to s all right.

        never said.

        o say.

        You aint goin to California though, are you?

        No. I aint.

        I didnt think so.

        Im goin to El Paso.

        I t you didnt know where you was goin.

        Maybe I just decided.

        I dont think so.

        Moss didnt answer.

        ttin out here, she said.

        I guess it depends on wtin.

        You aint just got out of tentiary or somethin have you?

        I just got off of deatric cs started to grow back.

        Youre full of it.

        Be funny if it turned out to be true t it?

        Is tin you?

        Everbodys in me.

        did you do?

        I been pi up young girls    t.

        t aint funny.

        Youre rig aint. I    pullin y.

        You said youd quit.

        I will.

        Do you ever tell truth?

        Yeaell truth.

        Youre married, aint you?

        Yeah.

        s your wifes name?

        Carla Jean.

        Is she in El Paso?

        Yeah.

        Does s you do for a livin?

        Yeah. She knows. Im a welder.

        Sco see hing.

        You aint no welder, she said.

        I?

        t maegun for?

        Cause ter me.

        did you do to em?

        I took somet belongs to em and t it back.

        t dont sound like o me.

        It dont, does it? I guess I    t of t.

        by tween humb and forefinger.

        And ts    bag. Aint it?

        o say.

        Are you a safecracker?

        A safecracker?

        Yeah.

        ever give you t notion?

        I dont know. Are you?

        No.

        ell youre somet you?

        Everbodys somethin.

        You ever been to California?

        Yeao California. I got a brothere.

        Does ?

        I dont know. here.

        You    live though, would you?

        No.

        You ts o go?

        ret te and    crossed s and looked out across t tos on t to    go?

        Yeae you givi money.

        Youre wele.

        You didnt o do t.

        I t you    goin to talk.

        All rigs a lot of mohough.

        It aint    you t is. Youll see.

        I    blo in. I need moo get me a place to stay.

        Youll be all right.

        I hope so.

        Best o live in California is to be from someo be from Mars.

        I . Cause I aint.

        Youll be all right.

        I ask you somethin?

        Yeah. Go ahead.

        how old are you?

        ty-six.

        ts pretty old. I didnt kno old.

        I kno kind of took me by surprise my own self.

        I got a feelin I ougo be afraid of you but I aint.

        ell. I t advise you on t    peoplell run from to get    to     to see him.

        I guess ts hink Im doin.

        I dont even    to know w youre doin.

        I    you this mornin.

        I dont know.

        I    stuff like t. About meetin people.

        ell, I    speak too soon.

        o bury me out in t?

        No. But t of bad luck out t.

        I t even be overdue.

        Yea.

        ?

        me tell you somettle sister. If t t you dont look like its a bunch of good luck walkin around.

        ts a eful to say.

        No it aint. I just    you to be careful. e get to El Paso Im goin to drop you at tation. You got money. You doo be out chhikin.

        All right.

        All right.

        ould you of done    if I ook your truck?

        s t?

        You kin t of me.

        No.

        I didnt think so.

        You    to split t beer?

        All right.

        Run in t a cup. Ill be ba a minute.

        All rig ged your mind have you?

        About w?

        You kno w.

        I dont co get it rig time.

        arted up tood at tell you sometime, she said.

        opped and turned. s t?

        t of good salesmen around and you mig.

        ell darlin youre just a little late. Cause I done bougick     I got.

        on up tairs and    in.

        to a truckstop outside of Balmoro t out and s t it. tter streaked over t-metal and    and got quarters from a c t and    took do off and got ba    and pulled out onto t.

        Bell left t seven-ty and took 285 norto Fort Sto. It    a    turs on. About ten miles    of Fort Sto oate     t stop but it gave opped at Balmortle and o    Vay-five.

        kno of a    motel ty patrol cars and a state police car all s going. tel ape.    s on.

        ty didnt knoioning a man sitting in    sleeves in t    travel fast, t are you doin up here, Sheriff?

        s happened, Marvin?

        tle s-out. You kno this?

        I dont kno any victims?

        t out of    a wo men and a woman.

        t to make it eit.

        Do you know whey were?

        No. One of tin for a registration on tin    over yonder. asnt a one of em ification. On em or in ther one.

        does this man say?

        arted it. Says    of        t t urned and s andin in    front of 117, rig em o teps and t t see .    all to pieces. You    see time. About seven minutes,    I t s dead.

        No ID.

        No ID. truck is got dealer tags on it.

        Bell nodded.    tness. te and    it    and sat smoking. ty fortable.    in the back of    police cruisers before.

        t woman, Bell said. as she anglo?

        Yea of reddish, maybe.

        Did you all find any dope?

        Not yet. ere still lookin.

        Any money?

        e aint found not. to 121.    and stuff was all.

        Bell looked doel doors. People standing around in small groups    talking.    the black Barracuda.

        t anyto turn tires h?

        Id say it urn em pretty good. Its got a four-forty u.

        A blower?

        Yep.

        I dont see one.

        Its one of ts all uhe hood.

        Bell stood looking at turned and looked at t    away from e?

        I .    did you have in mind?

        I just t I mig you to ride over to th me.

        All rig ride h me.

        tll be fine. Let me just park my cruiser a little better.

        s all rigom.

        Let me just pull it up    of t always know    off someplace.

        At to t nurse by name. S Bell.

        o make a identification, the sheriff said.

        S    of er about    ty minutes ago. Or maybe you already kne.

        Nobody tells me nothe sheriff said.

        trail of blood along te    floor. t of been o find, hey? Bell said.

        t t read Exit. Before t turned and fitted a key to a steel door on t and ope and sc.

        te block, y save for teel    macs tables on ic ss.

        Sood o t.

        a friend of yours is om?

        No.

        ook a couple of rounds in t to look too good. Not    t I aint seen     tell trut it.

        . Bell able. turo tly opened.    teet out.

        Is t him?

        Yeas him.

        You look like you .

        I get to tell his wife.

        Im sorry about t.

        Bell nodded.

        ell, t not it.

        No, Bell said. But you alo there is.

        ted back tic at table    and looked at Bell. Bell shook his head.

        ted ter. Just a scrawl.

        his name was Moss.

        All rig your information do ttle    old girl.

        Yeah.

        re o like t part of it her, he    said.

        No, I dont expect she will.

        t till standing leaning against times was s? he said. Do you know?

        No I dont, S . I dont mind and I know s.

        ts all rigll be on topsy. Are you ready, Ed tom?

        Yeah. I was ready fore I e in here.

        in t and stared at the desk.

        Finally    up and    out. ty looked up.

        hes gone home, I re.

        Yessir, ty said.    I hin, Sheriff?

        to El Paso?

        Its about a y miles.

        You tell omorrow.

        Yessir.

        opped and ate on to in tcs out on t make se of    it.    d got in t    to terse and tur and drove back to tel    again.

        otel on tbound iate and    across a crucks loomed up in tted on c back to tel.

        off    up and s to ruck    it be.

        el parking lot and    time. Leaning ba t and cape across ted in trucks droned past    out and o t tungun and ty    t from ttle bedside table over to tood and    took a screo back t of teel cover of t.    it on table and reac    tepped doo t at t. ook tol from be and opeepped out and    closed it beooped uape and o rud got in.

        to turn on tion y cruiser pull into t in front of tel office a     a back. to a parking spad ts    out. tor. Ced, tol in his lap.

        out ook a look around t and to t 117    and tried tape and pused on t.

        t table.    tood tepped to t tain out at t. ood time. Notepped over and picked it up but     it    in    on ttle piece of brass in ilted it into tray on table.

        elep t the cradle.

        ook ol from ter and flipped open te and ce    ol resting on his    knee.

        You dont kno    there, he said.

        Yes you do. You k taurant. ts why you e back here.

        ell o do?

        up and c. Five bulletood .

        o tudying t. Pickup trucks for t part.

        You could al. Just not first enoug    so.     came on. epped in and pulled    t and laid tol on t beside    out    it in    tion and started t of td s of t.

        of sigel o took t tral and rolled back doil    see tel sign.    c seven miime    1:52. ed. At tel not 1:52 ail eacs    blazing.    el. Any ve came out of t and ermio run it off the road.

        o tel arted turned on ts and    did a U-turn and    back doo t and got    out.

        t do ves and t one bad ood leaning against o ties. Gentlemen, generaled.

        tered tols. y o t and the lock der.

        s    y said, he der in his hand.

        Its a long story, Bell said. Im sorry to of got you all out hin.

        Not a problem, Sheriff.

        You tell the sheriff Ill call him from El Paso.

        Yessir, Ill sure do it.

        t side of to t to    to bed.    six as    up    and closed tains and    back to bed but    sleep. Finally    up and    s doo t    and read    t Moss and t. ress came    time t the evening paper.

        I dont kno.

        I dont blame you. I would if I could.

        I quit readin it and I made my    readin it.

        Is t right?

        I dont kno call t stuff news.

        No.

        time you read somet Jesus    the neer?

        Bell s kno would be a while.

        I guess it oo, she said. A long while.

        of message, it    all t neo him.

        ain move sligood ttail out looking at    ing. ook off     and s turned her face away.

        Im sorry, mam, he said.

        Oaggered bato to tood t.

        knoo do.    see any sign of t co eacepped into the door.

        Carla Jean, he said.

        Oh God, she said.

        Im just as sorry as I    be.

        Oh God.

        ood t in his hand. Im sorry, he said.

        S and tell me youre sorry? My and t? You    say youre sorry one more time and by God if I    get my gun and s you.
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