Different Seasons
Different Seasons
“Vern asked anxiously.
“Made a bad mistake and looked at your face,” I said.
“Eeee-eee-eeee!” Teddy cackled. “Fuckin Gordie! You wet!”
“You really okay?” Vern persisted.
“Yeah. Sure. It was ... bad there for a minute. Thinking about those suckers.”
They nodded soberly. We took five in the shade and then went on walking, me and Vern on one side of the tracks again, Chris and Teddy on the other. We figured we must be getting close.
23 We weren’t as close as we thought, and if we’d had the brains t...o spend two minutes looking at a roadmap, we would have seen why. We knew that Ray Brower’s corpse had to be near the Back Harlow Road, which dead-ends on the bank of the Royal River. Another trestle carries the GS&WM tracks across the Royal. So this is the way we figured: Once we got close to the Royal, we’d be getting close to the Back Harlow Road, where Billy and Charlie had been parked when they saw the boy. And since the Royal was only ten miles from the Castle River, we figured we had it made in the shade.MoreLess
“Made a bad mistake and looked at your face,” I said.
“Eeee-eee-eeee!” Teddy cackled. “Fuckin Gordie! You wet!”
“You really okay?” Vern persisted.
“Yeah. Sure. It was ... bad there for a minute. Thinking about those suckers.”
They nodded soberly. We took five in the shade and then went on walking, me and Vern on one side of the tracks again, Chris and Teddy on the other. We figured we must be getting close.
23 We weren’t as close as we thought, and if we’d had the brains t...o spend two minutes looking at a roadmap, we would have seen why. We knew that Ray Brower’s corpse had to be near the Back Harlow Road, which dead-ends on the bank of the Royal River. Another trestle carries the GS&WM tracks across the Royal. So this is the way we figured: Once we got close to the Royal, we’d be getting close to the Back Harlow Road, where Billy and Charlie had been parked when they saw the boy. And since the Royal was only ten miles from the Castle River, we figured we had it made in the shade.MoreLess
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