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lack German shepherd's head lolled limply against the
thin white back, smearing the undershirt red.
Judith Haig stood in the door while Maynard Henry
struggled to wrap the dog tightly in the blanket. With his
belt and the chain left there, he managed to lash Night's
body to the motorcycle. Then she went back inside the
house, back into the family room. She pulled the
blanket away from the body of Limus Barnum.
Outside the sky was livid now. Sweeping its blaze
over the land, now climbing the ridge, fire scalded the
clouds. The moon had fled.
John "Hawk" Haig's new red brick ranch house that
sat waiting to be connected to success now glowed
with bright orange light. Of such force and so close was
the fire that Maynard Henry, weaving dangerously up
the steep grade of the ridge, did not hear above that
terrible crackle the sound of a shot fired in the house
behind him.
chapter 55
Sirens screamed through Dingley Falls. From east
and west and north as well men rushed to fight, then