Chapter ONE - Weebly

hired to do this. What he wants or doesn’t want is
beside the point.”
“Bu’ who hired him?”
“That is the most difficult part of this, at least for me.
I suppose I bear some of the blame for not anticipating
where all of this would lead. But it was Adams and
Otis.”
The footsteps ceased.
“Mister Adams an’ Mister Otis hired him so tha’ he
could bloody me an’ then send me back t’ th’ prison?”
“I’m afraid so.”
Ethan placed the pointing finger of his right hand into
a chain link and then tried to wrench it out. It didn’t
work the first time, or the next. And with the second
attempt, the chain rattled against the tree with a chiming
sound.
Darrow and Mackintosh had started walking again,
but they halted a second time at a sharp “shhh!” from
the lawyer.
Ethan had one last chance. He placed his finger
back in the link and twisted it out again. This time it did
what he had hoped it would. It tore the nail away from