The Lost Ones
“THE RECKLESSNESS of his uncle’s paperwork, unfiled reports, and dirty guns sickened him. He never saw that side of him growing up and wondered if the sloppiness had spread in him like a cancer. Or maybe he’d never noticed it. Hamp had been the lead Quinn had followed when his father left town. A big, lumbering man who wore a tobacco brown ranch coat and beaten Stetson, Hamp got him out of trouble more than once and pushed him toward the Army. He took Quinn hunting from the time he could hold a ...gun and taught him how to track animals and to fish. He’d walk him around the muddy edges of the old pond and point out the prints of raccoon and deer and bellies of cottonmouths. He’d given him guns, taught him to shoot. He’d introduced him to the joys of a good cigar on his thirteenth birthday. His funeral had brought Quinn back again to a town that Hamp had always told him to escape.When Quinn took the job, Hamp’s longtime secretary, Mary Alice, asked if she could burn all the files.MoreLess
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