The Stolen Ones
“Luther had no interest in getting an accurate reading.
After he had thrown the tainted meat over the fence, the dog had taken it – a full pound of fresh beef brisket, laced with sodium pentobarbital – into her mouth and all but swallowed it whole. If Luther’s calculations were correct, it would not take more than twenty minutes. He would have preferred to inject the dog with the drug, thereby assuring its effectiveness, but he was not about to risk getting that close.
If the dog had bee...n older, or trained as an attack or guard dog, she would not have gone anywhere near the food. Luther had once been pursued along the Emajõgi River by a Russian bounty hunter who had, in his posse, a pair of young Alsatians. No amount of trickery with poisoned or drugged meat threw them off the trail. Luther was only saved by lashing spring rains, and his ability to hold his breath for great periods of time while crossing the Emajõgi.
On this day, the Philadelphia rain had relented for the moment.MoreLess
After he had thrown the tainted meat over the fence, the dog had taken it – a full pound of fresh beef brisket, laced with sodium pentobarbital – into her mouth and all but swallowed it whole. If Luther’s calculations were correct, it would not take more than twenty minutes. He would have preferred to inject the dog with the drug, thereby assuring its effectiveness, but he was not about to risk getting that close.
If the dog had bee...n older, or trained as an attack or guard dog, she would not have gone anywhere near the food. Luther had once been pursued along the Emajõgi River by a Russian bounty hunter who had, in his posse, a pair of young Alsatians. No amount of trickery with poisoned or drugged meat threw them off the trail. Luther was only saved by lashing spring rains, and his ability to hold his breath for great periods of time while crossing the Emajõgi.
On this day, the Philadelphia rain had relented for the moment.MoreLess
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