Chapter 2: The Sheriff Explains the Facts of Life

“So where do we go from here?”

“I’ll tell you where we go. First, we get a search warrant and search Hawkeye’s house for that 30-06. Then we bring that girl, Cora, in and I’ll sweat her. When I tell her what’s she’s risking covering for her horse trainer/boyfriend she’ll change her story. Give me an hour and I’ll get the truth out of her. She may even be an accomplice to murder!”

The car pulled to the side of the road and braked sharply.

“You will do no such thing! Do you know who that girl is, you idiot? She is Cora Munro! Her daddy is Albert Munro, an attorney in town!”

“Then he can defend her! I’m not worried about some two-bit attorney!”

“It’s her granddaddy you should be worried about. General Amos Webb, the President just nominated him to run the CIA! You want to accuse his only granddaughter of conspiracy to commit murder while his daughter is dying of breast cancer? If the General finds out we are investigating her, I’ll have a sudden heart attack, and you’ll die in a hit and run ‘accident’. If I find out you go near Cora Munro again, I’ll shoot you myself.”

“That means Hawkeye gets away with murder, we both know he did it.”

“So fucking what? That asshole Reny should have been locked up forever. He killed a young girl and her un-born baby while driving drunk! He got what he deserved. Two years too late but justified in my opinion.”