Fugitive Nights
“It felt good to do a job of investigation once again; even if it hadn’t been real police work it had the taste of investigation. He’d hoped that it might make him want more of it, but it hadn’t.
He wasn’t feeling well at all. He was having trouble with a fluttering heart and migraines. The only time he felt all right lately was when he went hiking out on the desert, like Clive Devon. And he’d suffered another accident, this one involving a nasty burn. He’d put his arm in the gas flame when he r...eached across the range top to fry bacon. By the time he’d thrust his arm under water, it was blistered and throbbing. The pain was excruciating. The coyotes came that night, but still he couldn’t sleep with so much pain.
Jack Graves had decided to go hiking the very next morning. He wore a sweater because the hot spell had broken, and he wore his floppy hat, but he didn’t bother smearing sunscreen on his face. And he didn’t bother with a lunch, or even a canteen of water.
Jack Graves decided on a particular hike he hadn’t made since the drought began five years earlier.MoreLess
He wasn’t feeling well at all. He was having trouble with a fluttering heart and migraines. The only time he felt all right lately was when he went hiking out on the desert, like Clive Devon. And he’d suffered another accident, this one involving a nasty burn. He’d put his arm in the gas flame when he r...eached across the range top to fry bacon. By the time he’d thrust his arm under water, it was blistered and throbbing. The pain was excruciating. The coyotes came that night, but still he couldn’t sleep with so much pain.
Jack Graves had decided to go hiking the very next morning. He wore a sweater because the hot spell had broken, and he wore his floppy hat, but he didn’t bother smearing sunscreen on his face. And he didn’t bother with a lunch, or even a canteen of water.
Jack Graves decided on a particular hike he hadn’t made since the drought began five years earlier.MoreLess
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