![]() ![]() ![]() What had driven it in? The coyote, maybe. Not a complicated job, but unpleasant enough to cause Chee to change the subject of his thinking again. ![]() Today he and Jay Kennedy would go out and arrest Roosevelt Bistie so that Bistie could be charged with some degree of homicide - probably with murder. Today, actually, since it must be well after midnight. Just a couple of weeks more to wait.Jim Chee's conditioning - traditional Navajo - caused him to put that thought aside. Blue-eyed, slender, fascinating Mary Landon would be coming back from Wisconsin. Was it something threatening to Chee? But in a moment he was fully awake, and the uneasiness was replaced by happiness. ![]() What had chased it in? Something scary to a cat - or to this particular cat. Perhaps the uneasy dream provoked an uneasiness about the cat. The sound brought him enough awake to be aware that his sheet was tangled uncomfortably around his chest.He sorted out the bedclothing, still half immersed in an uneasy dream of being tangled in 'a rope that he needed to keep his mother's sheep from running over the edge of something vague and dangerous. Chee had been moving in and out of the very edge of sleep, turning uneasily on the narrow bed, pressing himself uncomfortably against the metal tubes that braced the aluminum skin of his trailer. Chapter OneWhen the cat came through the little trapdoor at the bottom of the screen it made a "clack-clack sound. ![]()
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