Chapter ONE - Weebly

Ethan didn’t know what to say. Had the sheriff told
Hutchinson about the attack on Diver? And if so, how
had he explained what happened?
“Well?” the lieutenant governor said, sounding
impatient.
“There was, Your Honor. One of the sheriff’s
men … my friend thought that he meant to hurt me, and
he—”
“The man shoved you from behind,” Hutchinson
said, his tone brusque.
“That’s right.”
The lieutenant governor nodded once. “The sheriff
will speak with him.” He cleared his throat. “I take it
you’ve heard of what was done to my home two nights
ago.”
Hutchinson was a strange sort. On the one hand, his
manner was haughty—abrasively so. And yet he had
just shown Ethan, and Diver as well, more
consideration than Ethan would have expected from a
man of his station, particularly one whose home had
recently been wrecked by the very people he was
expected to govern.