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Ferris took a long drag on his pipe. "Keep in mind that we have to be prepared for more than one of them." |
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Kendall was undaunted. "We'll organize it a little differently this time. Gregory is concerned that we don't have much more than a handful of men we can depend on. Those ten men plus the six of us gives us very little operational latitude. We'll have to leave one group to patrol the perimeter of the village, another group will do a house to house, and the third will man the command center here at the schoolhouse to make sure the women and children are all right." |
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"Hell," Madden protested, "we need twice that many just to get an effective sweep of the area between Caleb's marina and the Carson road." |
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For the most part, I had demonstrated a certain amount of wisdom by staying out of it. Every part of my body from the hairline down was either battered, bruised, broken, bleeding, or otherwise malfunctioning. The thought of charging off into a fog-banked forest after something I knew my trusty Mauser wouldn't stop had little or no appeal. The bottom line was that up to this point in the unfolding Chambers Bay drama, I hadn't seen anything that would stop our foul-smelling tormentor. Kendall's rapidly devised plan with the gasoline and |
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